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Wednesday, June 6, 2012

6 June - RSS SnapShot! Pt II

IPS - Inter Press Services

Amidst much political fanfare, the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro concluded with the adoption of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development and the landmark Agenda 21 blueprint for a sustainable future in the 21st century.

Amanda Menjívar is moved by the sight of the 16 sewing machines donated to help a group of local women set up a sewing centre to get over the devastating effects of the disaster caused by Hurricane Ida in the Salvadoran town of Verapaz.

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

Summary: As Syria descends deeper into civil war and human misery, pressure for yet another western military intervention in the Arab world is growing. Last week, General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, declared that the US might take the "military option" in Syria i ...

Summary: “The facts on the ground in Iran seem to support Iran’s assertion that it has been systematically working on developing a fuel-fabrication capability,” Mark Hibbs, an analyst at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said today in an interview in Vienna. “This should provide the ...

Summary: The primary fear-mongering agenda item for the National Security and Surveillance State industry is now cyberwarfare. The Washington cadre of former military officials who seek to personally profit by exploiting national security issues — represented by Adm. Michael McConnell and Gen ...

Summary: Remember the Golden Rule? "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." It's not normally regarded as a cardinal rule of foreign policy; in that realm, "an eye for an eye" seems closer to the norm. But lately I've been thinking that American ...

Summary: United States President Barack Obama, the relentless drone warrior, has a new and proud hat: the cyber-warrior. Hitherto cloaked by a thinning facade of engagement with America's adversaries, the emperor has no clothes, with scandalous foreign policy decisions exposing a rogue essenc ...

The Daily Galaxy

Within the exotic world of macroscopic quantum effects, where fluids flow uphill, wires conduct without electrical resistance and magnets levitate, there is an even stranger family of "unconventional" phenomena. These effects often defy explanation by current theoretical physics, but hold...

Graphene has caused a lot of excitement among scientists since the extremely strong and thin carbonhoneycomb-shaped material, just one atom thick, was discovered in 2004. In 2011, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope spotted the signature of flat carbon flakes, called graphene,...

In the biggest result of its kind in more than ten years, physicists have made the most sensitive measurements yet in a decades-long hunt for a hypothetical and rare process involving the radioactive decay of atomic nuclei that could have...

The image above shows arc of Venus photographed in 2004 by Riccardo Robitschek and Giovanni Maria Caglieris of Milan, Italy. Backlit by the sun, Venus's atmosphere refracted sunlight passing through layers of air above the planet's cloudtops, creating an arc...

Natural News

A UCLA rat study, published in May in the Journal of Physiology, suggests that a diet that maintains a high level of fructose for as little as six weeks slows the brain and hampers memory and learning. "Our findings illustrate that what you eat affects how you think...

In a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, researchers concluded that omega 3 supplements, like natural fish oil, "do not prevent cardiovascular disease." But these studies were on high risk patients with known heart problems and on every med from stain...

Food freedom is under attack in the state of Oregon, where powerful industry lobbying groups are pushing for more restrictions, and maybe even a complete ban, on all raw milk sales. OregonLive.com reports that an isolated E. coli O157:H7 outbreak potentially linked to...

It may be a brash statement to say that one prickly green herb is the panacea for almost everything that ails you; but, in the case of stinging nettles, it's mostly true. If there's one plant to have on hand at all times that provides a cure for arthritis, an herbal...

Call it a judicious use of modern technology if you want to, but the fact is the increasing use of military-style drones for domestic surveillance is becoming alarming, and it's an issue that, sooner or later, either Congress or the courts are going to have to deal with...

Threat Level

The New York man who claims half ownership of Facebook has churned through at least eight law firms in his two-year legal quest to assume a 50 percent stake in the social-networking site, according to court records. The latest dropouts of three firms, including at least five attorneys, were appr ...

It's a scenario that security researchers have long worried about — a man-in-the-middle attack that allows someone to impersonate Microsoft Update to deliver malware to machines disguised as legitimate Microsoft code. And now it's one of the tactics that researchers have discovered that th ...

The attackers behind the complex Flame cyberespionage toolkit, believed to be a state-sponsored operation, used an extensive list of fake identities to register at least 86 domains as part of their command-and-control center, and were particularly interested in stealing AutoCAD documents from in ...

PASADENA, California -- A federal appeals court appeared troubled Friday by the Obama administration's arguments that the government could break domestic spying laws without fear of being sued. A two-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard an hour of oral arguments here by the ...

PERRspectives : Blog

Mitt Romney's religion is back in the news this week thanks to a flood of articles saying it shouldn't be. While the Los Angeles Times reports "Obama and Romney shun confrontation on religion," Richard Cohen of the Washington Post declared "Mitt Romney's faith is his business." Two weeks before ...

On Monday, the Associated Press gave Mitt Romney great headline. Summing up recent analyses comparing how President Obama and his challenger would fare under their own tax plans, the AP reported "Obama win could cost Romney $5M in personal taxes." Rather than declaring "Romney would cut his ow ...

Imagine that you are completing your federal tax return. After looking up the tax rate for your income level, you decide you will pay 20 percent less to Uncle Sam. But along with your underpayment, you include a handwritten note to the IRS letting the government know that you promise to make u ...

For months, GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney has falsely claimed that President Obama "did not cause this recession, but he made it worse." This week, Romney charged that Obama "started off by blaming George Bush, and that worked for a while but, you know, after three and a half years that ...

In Las Vegas Tuesday, Mitt Romney looked to his own biography in proposing a new requirement for anyone seeking the presidency: "In addition to the age of the president and the citizenship of the president and the birthplace of the president being set by the Constitution, I'd like it also to sa ...

One of the very interesting people I met at How The Light Gets In was the writer and filmmaker David Malone. In conversation with him and (it was a very weird weekend, okay?) Michael Nyman and the head of cultural affairs at the Mexican embassy to the UK, he’d mentioned that some of his wo ...

UNDER TOMORROWS SKY is a project by Liam Young of Tomorrows Thoughts Today opening in August at MU art space, Eindhoven. Liam has assembled a think tank of mad scientists, literary astronauts, digital poets, speculative gamers, mavericks, visionaries and luminaries to collectively author a propo ...

I read this book in two sittings – half on the train ride out to Hay, half on the train ride back. Paul Mason is the economics editor for BBC Newsnight. You might expect a novel by that person to be as sober and measured as that programme. It’s really, really not. A pisse ...

Consortium News

TruthOut

The US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the "official tally" (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for example.) But Congress has never authorized or debated the US military intervention in Libya. (A sharply disputed claim holds ...

In a nuclear crisis, life becomes a nightmare for those people trying to make sense of the uncertainties. Imaginably, the questions are endless. Radiation is invisible, how do you know when you are in danger? How long will this danger persist? How can you reduce the hazard to yourself and famil ...

About to turn thirty, Conor Grennan planned a year-long trip around the world. He started his trip with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in war-torn Nepal. What was supposed to be just a three-month experience changed Conor's life, and the lives of countless other ...

Planetsave

Giant insects with wingspans of more than two feet used to rule the skies from 300-150 million years ago. New research is suggesting that they were killed off by the emergence of birds, not by declining oxygen levels as had previously been believed. When birds first appeared 150 million y ...

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory filmed the last Venus transit for the next one hundred years from space on June 5th. The next time Venus transits the sun won’t be until 2117. The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is a NASA mission to study the Earth-Sun connection as it relat ...

Using a new technique to more accurately estimate the weights of some dinosaurs, researchers have found that some dinosaurs were not nearly as heavy as previously thought. Biologists from the University of Manchester used lasers to measure the minimum amount of skin necessary to wrap arou ...

In the last few decades, shrubs in the Arctic tundra have transformed themselves into trees as a result of the warming Arctic climate, at a speed and magnitude that is far greater than scientists had ever anticipated. If this continues and is replicated across the whole of the Arctic tund ...

The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), an American Spy Agency, is giving two of its powerful space telescopes to NASA. Apparently because they are “surplus” telescopes. According to NASA, if they are repurposed to fit the agency’s needs, then they will b ...

Axis of Logic

Nicole Eaton may be Canada's Mitt Romney. The Republican presidential candidate comes across as a wealthy patrician with little sense of how tough the world can be for people who don't have tens of millions of dollars at their disposal. That tendency also seems to afflict Eaton, a weal ...

A U.S. army private accused in the biggest leak of government secrets in the country’s history is returning to a military courtroom in Maryland, seeking dismissal of 10 of the 22 charges he faces. The pretrial hearing for Bradley Manning begins Wednesday morning at Fort Meade. The 24-y ...

At my father's funeral, the presiding minister, Ebb Munden, was a man who had been one of my dad's closest friends. Ebb talked about how the last time he had gone to see my dad before he lost consciousness, he had been very emotional, but that my dad had comforted...

I gave a talk last week at Canada’s Wilfrid Laurier University to the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Many in the audience had pinned small red squares of felt to their clothing. The carre rouge, or red square, has become the Canadian symbol of revolt. It comes from...

The youtube video of 12 year old Victoria Grant speaking at the Public Banking in America conference last month has gone viral, topping a million views on various websites. Monetary reform—the contention that governments, not banks, should create and lend a nation’s money—has rarel ...

They Gave Us a Republic

By @KYYellowDog Uploaded by AnarchistOpposition on Jul 21, 2009 *I am in no way affiliated with the content in this video nor am I trying to take credit for it* Phil wrote this song in 1st person, telling the story of the last of the bourgeois during a revolution, very creative and inspiring son ...

By @BGinKC ...now it's the netbook. It is sitting on my desk, mocking me, refusing to un-freeze and let me save the post I worked on for over an hour this morning and that I was five minutes away from posting. Of course it's in a text editor and double of course -- it isn't saved. I am attempti ...

By @KYYellowDog The next the big wars aren't going to be over oil; they're going to be over water. If the last drop of petroleum disappeared tomorrow, life would suddenly become extremely difficult (could you walk to work every day?) but people would not start dying by the millions very quickly. ...

By @BGinKC 10:15 p.m. -- Never mind. Barrett has conceded to the billionaires who bought this election for their stooge Scott Walker. Anyone want to place a bet on if and when he's indicted? 10:15 p.m. I'm not calling it yet, and the M$M is irresponsible to do so, considering that there ar ...

By @KYYellowDog Steve M. eviscerates Ezra Baby Wonk Klein's ludicrous claim that Romney might be good for the economy, and you should read every word. But I'll add that even if Baby Wonk were right that congressional repugs would support massive spending by a repug president, the economy's just ...

Care 2

The Smoky Canyon Mine is one of 17 phosphate mine Superfund sites in Idaho. Selenium leaching from the mine has had lethal results, with thousands of dead and deformed fish. Submitted by Nancy C. to Environment | Note-it! | Add a Comment

Please sign our petition to urge the U.S. to submit this proposal. We must take this urgent action to protect the future of these majestic bears. Submitted by Cher C. to Animals | Note-it! | Add a Comment

Because the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Association authorized states to remove sea lions that threaten protected salmon, an unpredicented number of sea lions have been slaughtered. Two Pacific Northwest sea lions found shot dead this Submitted by Cher C. to Animals | No ...

Ohio Governor John Kasich signed into law on Tuesday new state restrictions on the ownership of exotic animals following the slaughter last year of dozens of wild animals freed by a man before he committed suicide. Submitted by Cal Mendelsohn to Animals | Note-it! |&nbsp ...

On Sunday, a 4-year-old dog gave birth to five puppies inside of the Collin County Animal Services facility in McKinney, Texas. Two days later, the new mother and her infant puppies still sit in the same cement kennel run with no interest. Submitted by Elizabeth O. to Offbeat | &nbs ...

No Quarter

I know that sounds like an oxymoron, but I just turned over to watch MSNBC and see how they were reacting to the ass whooping in Wisconsin. Lawrence O’Donnell starts off the show by claiming these results are, and I’m quoting here, “THE REALLY BIG WINNER IN TONIGHT’S ELEC ...

Remember that clueless turd, PPAA aka LOLA828? Do you like apples? Well PPAA LOLA, how about these apples?: Former President Bill Clinton told CNBC Tuesday that the US economy already is in a recession and urged Congress to extend all the tax cuts due to expire at the end of the year. In a taped ...

Welcome to Wisconsin. The Badger State. Famous for cheese, beer, brats and the Green Bay Packers. One of the fly-overs that most members of the MSM don’t think of often. If at all. It’s just too nice. Wisconsin. It’s also Russ Feingold country . . . Oops. Not anymore. Now it&# ...

Thingamajigs What is striking about POTUS Obama’s inarticulate Golden Valley, Minnesota remedy about the present state of the sluggish worldwide contraction — “thingamajigs” — is not that Mr.Obama speaks condescendingly to his staged events, but that Zero Hedge, the ...

Futurismic

Perhaps it’s because of the economy is beginning – finally – to pick up in the US. Perhaps it is because I’m sick to death of bad election-year politics, so I’m looking at anything else that comes along of interest. Maybe it’s even because I wrote about creative destruction the last time I did a ...

I get a fairly regular flow of emails about independent film projects. Most of them, to be honest, bounce straight off me – which says less about their quality than it does about my own taste in cinema. Independent cinema – like independent music and literature – has lots of pr ...

So, I stand accused of censorship by someone whose comment I declined to approve on this post. I figure anyone willing to throw around accusations of censorship is probably a big fan of radical transparency; hence, by way of amelioration, here is the digital papertrail for the full exchange. (Em ...

Soooooo, yeah – I’ve been busy. Did you miss me? New job, Masters degree… doesn’t leave a lot of spare time, so it doesn’t. But it’s been quiet here too long, so it’s time to dust down the soapbox and run a mic-check. One-two, one-two. The Future Always ...

Last month I pondered the extent to which the Arab Spring and Occupy Everything are socially-driven acts of creative destruction. Creative destruction is defined as a “process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying ...

Therapy News

When someone is asked to predict their emotional reaction to a future, hypothetical event, they usually underestimate how they will respond, according to previous research. However, a new study, led by Heather C. Lench of the Department of Psychology at Texas A&M University, suggests otherwi ...

One of the primary reasons people neglect to seek treatment for their mental health problems is because they are concerned about the external and internal stigmas associated with mental illness. Public stigma is the external belief that one is defective if they receive therapy for their problems ...

November 23, 2011 – As we approach Thanksgiving, the day that reminds us to be thankful for those around us, we present Ghandi’s belief in the unity of all living things. Keep this in mind as you care for your loved ones this weekend and for those who are less fortunate. Happy Thanks ...

Engaged couples form patterns of positive and negative behavior that can predict their marital satisfaction. “Serious marital dissatisfaction predicts increased risk for a major depressive episode, even when controlling for history of depression,” said Rebecca E. Osterhout of the New Mexico Vete ...

Panic attacks are usually initiated by a triggering thought or collection of thoughts that are anxiety-provoking in nature. These thoughts then cause an overly exaggerated anxiety response in the body (choking sensations, dizziness, tightness, tingling, etc). These physical sensations are then o ...

Coal Supporters, Opponents To Hold Separate Rallies this Week HispanicBusiness.com Coal industry supporters are set to hold a rally this week in an effort to convince the EPA to release surface mine permits, while critics of mountaintop removal in Appalachia are set to host a separate event in W ...

From Kentucky to DC It's Getting Hot In Here “We aren't evil, I promise,” said the evil congressman's intern after he said he couldn't help stop mountaintop removal coal mining. If you ever become a congressional intern and you find yourself in a situation where you must clarify that ...

REP. DOUG LAMBORN HOLDS A HEARING ON ADMINISTRATION'S ACTIONS AGAINST SPRUCE ... Power Engineering Magazine Mountaintop removal mining can be one of the most destructive practices on earth for the health of local communities, our climate and our environment. According to the Environmental Pr ...

Memeorandum

Jonah Goldberg / National Review: Notes on the Big Win — Last night I watched an anti-Walker protester in Madison almost break into tears (it was on CNN or MSNBC I'm not sure which). He kept saying that this spelled the end of democracy. “It's over,” he ...

James Taranto / Wall Street Journal: We Are the 119% — MSNBC: My Schadenfreude Now Blankets Cable. — Last night we got home from a dinner and discovered something wonderful when we switched on the television. There's an entire cable network called MSNBC ...

Paul Krugman: The Urge to Punish — I've been hearing various attempts to explain the ECB's utterly bizarre refusal to cut interest rates despite soaring unemployment, sliding inflation, and on top of all that the special problems of a monetary union that probably can't survive ...

Christian Heinze / GOP 12: Jeb: 2012 was “probably my time” — Sure, Jeb Bush talked about not taking VP in his appearance on CBS this morning, but he's said that a thousand times. — This exchange was far more interesting and pretty big — he ...

VELObill, a software product that gathers all of the real-time data on your electricity, natural gas and water usage into one smartphone view, takes first prize in the people's choice category of the "Apps for Energy" contest.

China Dialogue

From Paris boardrooms to Kazakh uranium mines, the nuclear industry anxiously awaits news from Beijing. A latecomer to the party, China is looking more and more the favoured guest, writes Antony Froggatt.In the space of a couple of decades, China has become a major player in the global nuclear s ...

Francois Hollande’s election victory is the latest blow to an industry struggling to revive the optimism of pre-Fukushima days. But the seeds of crisis were there well before Japan’s disaster, writes Steve Thomas.Prospects for nuclear power in post-Fukushima Europe are looking grim. ...

New EU safety proposals for vessel-recycling could save hundreds of south Asian workers from injury and poisoning, writes John Vidal. But some developing countries say stricter rules could wreck local economies.When the rusty, old supertanker Lara1 reached Bangladesh in late April, the captain s ...

This month's Earth Summit in Rio must prove the doubters wrong: the Green Economy can mean more than profits for business. Farming is a good place to start, argues Barbara Unmüßig.The Rio+20 conference, which begins on June 20, will discuss strategies for building a "Green Econom ...

America's flashy skylines consume far more energy than buildings in China, explains James Connelly. As Chinese cities modernise, they would be wise to avoid the mistakes of the west.Among its many environmental challenges, China faces an enormous increase in energy consumption by buildings over ...

Threat Level

The New York man who claims half ownership of Facebook has churned through at least eight law firms in his two-year legal quest to assume a 50 percent stake in the social-networking site, according to court records. The latest dropouts of three firms, including at least five attorneys, were appr ...

It's a scenario that security researchers have long worried about — a man-in-the-middle attack that allows someone to impersonate Microsoft Update to deliver malware to machines disguised as legitimate Microsoft code. And now it's one of the tactics that researchers have discovered that th ...

The attackers behind the complex Flame cyberespionage toolkit, believed to be a state-sponsored operation, used an extensive list of fake identities to register at least 86 domains as part of their command-and-control center, and were particularly interested in stealing AutoCAD documents from in ...

PASADENA, California -- A federal appeals court appeared troubled Friday by the Obama administration's arguments that the government could break domestic spying laws without fear of being sued. A two-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard an hour of oral arguments here by the ...

Visit the website of One Society which works in partnership with The Equality Trust. One Society draws on a wealth of research which shows that large divides in income at the top and bottom of society – beyond ‘proportional rewards’ – are damaging to our economy and society, not just for those ...

Action for Happiness is a new movement for positive social change, founded by Richard Layard, Geoff Mulgan and Anthony Seldon. They aim to bring together people from all walks of life who want to play a part in creating a happier society for everyone. Their vision of a better future inc ...

PDA AMERICA

Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics By Carmen Yarrusso There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”–Henry David Thoreau Clearly, our government ...

Little Victories! Field Site: onenationpda.org California ADEM elections: Congratulations to all our PDA California friends and allies who completed a sweep up and down at the state at the recent CA Democratic Party Delegate elections. This will put the ...

William John Cox The shooter of Congresswoman Gifford acted as a domestic suicide terrorist on the political “battleground” of American politics. His YouTube postings and “goodby” phone messages are ominously reminiscent of the traditional farewell videos ...

Marler Blog

Zillman Meat Market Ready-to-Eat, Custom, Smoked Meat Products Made From Game 2010: An outbreak of E. coli O145 was linked to the consumption of ready-to-eat, custom, smoked meat products that were made from game. These products were produced and sold by the Zillman Meat Market in Wausau, ...

Louisiana State Health officials are working with neighboring southern states and the CDC to identify the cause of several cases of E. coli illnesses (presumably not E. coli O157:H7) in the New Orleans area - one of which is blamed for the death of 21-month-old Maelan Elizabeth Graffagnini. Whi ...

Dan Elliott 0f Denver AP and I spoke this morning for his story that went online a few moments ago - "Settlement talks under way in listeria lawsuits:" A settlement is in the works in lawsuits against a Colorado farm identified as the source of a nationwide listeria outbreak last fall that kill ...

Keoki's Lau Lau, a Honolulu, HI establishment, is recalling approximately 400 pounds of a ready-to-eat pork product due to possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The following product is ...

Karen Robinson-Jacobs of the Dallas Morning News jumped into the Listeria Cantaloupe case today with her story: Texas shipper in cantaloupe listeria case says it has no bankruptcy plans. I spoke to Ms. Robinson-Jacobs about the impact of the bankruptcy of the grower of the Listeria-tainted cant ...

AutoblogGreen

We noted yesterday that some 2012 Tesla Model S buyers have already received their cars even though deliveries won't officially begin until June 22. Now we've got video proof. The very first Model S, decked-out with license plate TSLA S1, left the Fremont, CA factory this past weekend, Gre ...

Filed under: Car Buying, Government/Legal, Hatchback, Honda, Electric It might only be available to lease in limited numbers in only a few areas, but the Honda Fit EV certainly has one thing that's tremendously good about it: an official EPA rating of 118 MPGe and a range of 82 miles. Specifi ...

Filed under: Hybrid, Japan, Marketing/Advertising, Videos, Hatchback, Toyota, Electric Help us, plug-in cars, you're our only hope. In his original deal with Fox for the first Star Wars movie, George Lucas famously kept the licensing rights for himself. That deal - unusual at the time - ha ...

Filed under: Car Buying, Hybrid, Wagon, Hatchback, Toyota Think you're seeing more Toyota Prius models on the road these days? Well, you are. Automotive News is reporting that all those increased Prius sales in the U.S. and Japan (see here and here and here and here etc.) have turned the P ...

As Facebook was trading as a public company for the first time today, we assembled a group of tech and finance experts to talk about the new stock. Is it worth buying? What will it do for technology overall? Can Facebook compete on mobile? Our panelists to debate these and related topics: ...

Camera Obscura

http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935025/pathos-and-pathology-cinema.html September 1, 2004... Because infinity--for the eye--begins just a few meters away from the retina.... --Roger Caillois, "The Image" There are at least two shots in Todd Haynes's work that recur so ...

http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935026/incredible-shrinking-star-todd.html September 1, 2004... Critics have consistently characterized the films of Todd Haynes within the terms of what B. Ruby Rich described in 1992 as the "new queer cinema"--films whose style displayed traces ...

http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935031/written-screen-mediation-and.html September 1, 2004... Recently, while engaging in one of my favorite forms of procrastination--using my computer to search for mid-century modern bargains on eBay rather than using it to engage in more rigo ...

http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-126935030/traumatic-postmodern-histories-velvet.html September 1, 2004... If modernity was characterized by and imagined itself in terms of a particular awareness of time and history--the unfolding of social, political, and technological projects of ...

Democracy Now!

After an exhaustive study of Mahatma Gandhi’s works, scholar and activist Norman Finkelstein has written a new book about the principles of nonviolent resistance from the Indian struggle for independence to Tahrir Square and Zuccotti Park. He says Gandhi found "nothing more despicabl ...

Democracy Now! is saddened to report that one of our past guests, Bassel Shahade, was killed last Monday while he worked on a documentary and trained media activists in Homs, Syria. Our producers first met Shahade at Syracuse University, where he was a Fulbright scholar studying filmmaking. ...

An article about protesters coming to Tampa, Florida, for the 2012 Republican National Convention features Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman talking about her arrest at the 2008 RNC in St. Paul, Minnesota. Goodman and two producers were unlawfully arrested and subjected to excessive force ...

We continue our conversation with Charles Ferguson, director of the Oscar award-winning documentary, “Inside Job,” about the 2008 financial crisis. In his new book, “Predator Nation,” he argues “the role of Democrats has been at least as great as the role of Republicans” in causing the crisis. ...

Published on Jun 4, 2012 by BarackObamadotcom Learn more: http:www.romneyeconomics.com Mitt Romney ran for governor of Massachusetts promising more jobs, decreased debt, and smaller government. By the time Romney left office, state debt had increased, the size of government had grown, and M ...

Published on Jun 1, 2012 by BarackObamadotcom Learn more: https://my.barackobama.com/romneyeconomicsgopvid Mitt Romney ran for governor of Massachusetts promising more jobs, decreased debt, and smaller government. By the time Romney left office, state debt had increased, the size of government h ...

Solari

The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom is a BBC documentary series by English filmmaker Adam Curtis, well known for other documentaries including The Century of the Self and The Power of Nightmares. It began airing in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on March 11, 2007. The Trap – 1 ...

Delivered June 10, 1963 “President Anderson, members of the faculty, board of trustees, distinguished guests, my old colleague, Senator Bob Byrd, who has earned his degree through many years of attending night law school, while I am earning mine in the next 30 minutes, distinguished guests ...

by Humble Student of the Markets I wrote before that the likely negative surprise was going to come from China and not Europe (see Focus on China, not Europe). Yes, I am worried about China, but my concerns are longer term oriented. No, I am not as concerned about the possibility of a slowdown i ...

“There are three kinds of people in the world: those who are asleep, those who are stirring, and those who are awake. “If you try to wake up the sleeping person he will just mumble and go back to sleep. If you wake up the stirring person he will wake up just long enough to [...]

Josey: You be Ten Bears? Ten Bears: I am Ten Bears. Josey: (spits tobacco) I’m Josey Wales. Ten Bears: I have heard. You’re the Gray Rider. You would not make peace with the Blue Coats. You may go in peace. Josey: I reckon not. Got nowhere to go. Ten Bears: Then you will [...]

Insurgency Watch - Newswire

ISLAMABAD–The apparent links between Pakistan and Faisal Shahzad are certainly cause for concern, but let’s not lose site of things here. The attack in Times Square was a fizzle. The rush to claim credit is a bit embarassing for the TTP and looks like it was — like the attack itself — a rush job ...

Stepping up University at Buffalo The Spectrum The president of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, recognized the direness of the situation and began to mobilize military forces to combat the Taliban. ... and more »

BBC News Obama, us leaders should contemplate future of Afghan women Chicago Tribune Would nuclear-armed Pakistan become even more vulnerable to its own Taliban insurgency? Will a defeat embolden America's enemies? That line of thinking must ... Vietnam syndrome has begun in AfghanistanSri L ...

Officials: Campus blasts perplexing United Press International ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The International Islamic University, where bomb blasts killed at least six people, is a unique Pakistani institution ... and more »

Schools closed in Pakistan after bombing GMA news.tv An Associated Press reporter met three Taliban fighters Tuesday traveling in a car with darkened windows at Shaktoi, a town close to the border between ... and more »

By taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier. Being smart about waste, consumption and resources won't only win you the thanks of forthcoming generations: you'll feel the financial benefit immediately. 1. Make money from old electronics As your electronic goods become o ...

Fabius Maximus

Summary: The last act of the EMU’s death throes has begun. We already knew the two possible endings: further unification or fragmentation. Now we can see far enough to guess about when and how it will end. Probably in a crisis, in which the odds of policy errors will be high — an ...

Summary: This was originally intended as a follow-up to The Titanic’s lessons for us about the coming economic crisis. But as so often the case on the FM website, it changed while being written. Instead of a discussion about the importance of choosing good leaders, it asks what we think we&#821 ...

Summary: Bad decisions often transform a crisis into a disaster. Sometimes bad decisions are unavoidable. Today we’ll look at two episodes of the past, mining them for useful lessons for us about leadership. Contents Introduction Learning from the Titanic Learning from the Great Depressio ...

Summary: A vital aspect of high performance is the “lessons learned” exercise after every operation, however painful. Watching the game films to see what we did right and wrong, so that we can do better. Unfortunately America’s broken observation-orientation-decision action l ...

Summary: Most people focus on the month-to-month changes in the jobs report, which consists mostly of noise (unpleasant noise recently). The year-to-date and 12-month changes are more revealing. We remain in a slow recovery, somewhat faster than in 2010. The results of the past two months (n ...

Open Your Eyes News

Press TV – About 150 Roma gypsies were barred from participating in the Easter vigil of the basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls on Sunday, after temporarily taking shelter there on Good Friday, The Telegraph reported. Local and foreign pilgrims, who had gathered to attend the vigil, ...

Breitbart – The euro struck a 16-month high against the dollar and the Swiss franc notched a record high versus the US unit Tuesday amid heightened investor nerves over this week’s busy economic calendar. The European single currency hit $1.4653 in morning trade, the highest point si ...

PressTV – A new survey shows that the value of money in the UK has dropped by 94 percent over the past 50 years, which means an 18-time increase in retail prices. The survey carried out by BM Savings has found that almost £1,800 is needed to match the buying power of £100 in 1960, [...]

IOL – The rising price of gold has multiplied by six the pace of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the Peruvian region of Madre de Dios in recent years, a study published on Tuesday said. Illegal gold searches using primitive techniques in the years 2003-9 led to the destruction of ...

Daily Mail – Every new pet dog will be microchipped under sweeping Government regulations to combat dangerous animals. Each puppy born and dog sold will have an electronic chip implanted under the skin. Details will then be placed on a national database accessible by police and the RSPCA. ...

The Progressive Realist

Conditions in South Asia are chaotic, confused, critical and potentially catastrophic. Afghanistan, India and Pakistan are confronted with existential security, economic and political dangers that could overwhelm the capacity and limited resources of each state to address. In a surprisingly chil ...

Iran’s National Organization for Educational Testing has banned Afghans, Iraqis and, in some instances, other foreign nationals from residing in certain provinces and enrolling in certain courses of study. The new ban affects Afghan refugees most severely and seems to apply uniformly to im ...

Top stories from the Development and Aid World News Service–DAWNS Digest. (If you want the full digest, sign up for it here). Suicide Attack Near NATO Base Kills Dozens Two suicide bombers on Wednesday struck a staging area for supply trucks waiting to enter NATO’s biggest base in southern ...

Another one bites the dust: Al-Qaeda’s No. 2 leader, Abu Yahya al-Libi, the charismatic commander who helped steer the terrorist group after Osama bin Laden’s death last year, was killed by a CIA drone strike in Pakistan’s lawless frontier region, U.S. officials confirmed Tuesday. We are rapidl ...

The US, Europe and Arab nations are mounting a concerted effort to convince Russia that it can maintain its alliance with Syria without Bashar al-Assad at the helm. “There is no chance to detach Russia from Syria,” a senior Western diplomat in Washington, speaking on condition of ano ...

TAPPED - The American Prospect

After Governor Scott Walker's win in Wisconsin last night, AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka decided to walk a strange line on today's press call. WaPo's The Fix has a post arguing that the call was about distancing the union from the recall effort, but to me the union president seemed eager to ...

Last week, the Susan B. Anthony List’s computers were seized as evidence in an ongoing federal lawsuit in Ohio. Yesterday, the group’s president, Marjorie Dannenfelser, sent out a fundraising e-mail with the news and a plea for donations. “As important as it is that we vigorously defend against ...

Over at the New York Times, Ross Douthat has a mostly excellent take on the Wisconsin recall and what it means for American politics. The short story is that economic distress will result in a zero-sum politics, where both sides vie for the greatest gains while doing as much as possible to bloc ...

Of all the things we talk about during a presidential campaign, the Supreme Court probably has the lowest discussion-to-importance ratio. Appointing justices to the Court is one of the most consequential privileges of the presidency, one that has become more important in the last couple of deca ...

Here’s some absurdly good news. As Garrett Epps told us, the Ninth Circuit yesterday decided to stand by its panel’s decision in the Prop 8 case and kick it upstairs to the Supremes. Maybe SCOTUS will refuse to take the case; that would be fabulous news, turning California immediately into a ma ...

Buzzflash

DANNY SCHECHTER FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT New York, New York: In theory, American elections traditionally get going after Labor Day, but, as we can see by the daily overkill media "coverage," polls and constant reporting about who has raised what---to the degree that anyone really knows in the a ...

BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT This is a story about fraud. It is a story about Christians deceiving Christians. It is not, as you might anticipate, a story about a conservative Christian pastor or ministry bilking its followers. Rather, it is about liberal Christian non-profit organiz ...

JACQUELINE MARCUS FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT What's the explanation for a ‘secret kill list' that's been given the President's stamp of approval? Regarding Yemen, could the answer to that question have something to do with oil? Oil companies operating in Yemen include Austria's OMV, the U.S.-bas ...

PAUL BUCHHEIT FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT Half of America has been deceived into believing that union employees and government workers are the problem in our country. The following five facts all send the same message to voters: Wealthy individuals and corporations, not middle-class wage earners, ...

Body No matter how loudly opponents of President Obama insist they are focused on "jobs, jobs, jobs" it is clear they will use any method, any surrogate and any false narrative to justify their attack on him. They unashamedly pander to low-minded racists and billionaire fund-raisers ...

Sciencebase

NHS Choices comments on a powerfully argued and controversial paper in the British Medical Journal that claims many people are being diagnosed and treated for mild health problems that left alone might never cause any harm. The magazine lists the common conditions that the authors claim are bein ...

Airport X-ray security body scanners are anything but risky business. Indeed, you will be exposed to the same dose of ionising radiation in just two minutes of your flight once you’re at high altitude. So, an 8-hour flight is equivalent to having 240 full-body scans. They reckon you’ ...

Pluto is not a planet…but what is a planet anyway? For those stuck in endless arguments down the pub about why Pluto was, but is no longer, a planet: Related Posts:The evolving, revolving of the Moon Still, lifeless, unchanging...how did the Moon get so boring? Here's what a few billion ye ...

Dark matter might be found in hornets’ nests and cans of worms but not necessarily in the real world of cosmology and science. I recently reported on the work of Christian Moni Bidin which reveals serious discrepancies in science’s claims for the existence of dark matter. Of course, ...

Lifesquare is offering users in Marin County, California, a simple way to embed their essential health information, blood group, GP’s name and address, next of kin, medications, allergies, pre-existing conditions, etc into a QR code that emergency responders could scan at the scene of an i ...

Common Dreams-Progressive Newswire

The Cabell County Board of Education voted yesterday to suspend a single-sex program at a West Virginia middle school after the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of West Virginia identified serious legal concerns with the program, including reliance on outdated sex stereotypes.read more

Does information about legislation belong to Congress or to the American people? This basic question is at the heart of a debate happening right now about how Congress releases data about what it does.read more

In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which allows corporations to spend unlimited amounts from their treasuries to influence elections, states have passed a variety of innovative measures to regulate corporate cash in elections, ...

Just ahead of a major U.S. Senate vote on the Environmental Protection Administration’s authority to clean up mercury and other toxic air pollutants, a Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) report shows that the 25 worst coal-fired power plants account for more than half of the dangerou ...

Human Rights First today called Google’s new policy to warn Gmail users when a government or its proxies are trying to break into an email account a welcome step in the ongoing effort to increase communication between online companies and customers.read more

Jean Athey Corporate welfare for the military industrial complex is alive and well—even at the local level—and important mainstream media outlets, such as The Washington Post, continue to editorialize in support of more. But som ...

Pat Kennelly Here in Afghanistan, the United States is spending $2 billion dollars a week on war under the guise of improving Afghanistan. In Chicago at the NATO summit, Hillary Clinton, Madeline Albright and several influential female lead ...

Nora Barrows-Friedman Berkeley 5 June 2012 A delegation of activists from Palestinian refugee rights groups recently visited Cape Town, South Africa, to discuss the practicalities of implementing the right of return.

The Wonk Room

I am so sorry to hear of the loss of Ray Bradbury, who as well as writing some of the first, most influential science fiction I ever read, but who helped teach me how to write. Zen and the Art of Writing, his book about how he became a writer and came to understand creativity [...]

by Jeff Turrentine, via OnEarth Last November 7, Continental Airlines Flight 1403 took off from Houston, bound for Chicago. The trip was utterly unremarkable save for one thing. Thanks to its fuel — a blend of standard jet diesel and a biofuel derived from algae — the flight reduced ...

I was on CBC yesterday discussing the ethics of allowing young children to participate or star in reality television programming, and one of the things I’d considered raising as a point is that we’ve generally agreed that 13 is the age at which it makes sense to allow children sign u ...

by Dana Nucitelli and John Mashey, via Skeptical Science We often hear claims from climate contrarians that climate scientists are guilty of what they describe as “pal review.” The conspiracy theory goes something like this – climate scientists conduct biased research with the ...

thwap's schoolyard

Can you imagine a greater waste of your time than watching such a thing as that?? It's one of the top stories on the CBC News website, and there's an image of Mansbridge looking serious as harper gesticulates and blathers about something. Even if harper wasn't an illegitimate prime minister, a s ...

Just another reflection on the obvious folks! "Right" and "Left" or "Conservative" and "Progressive." For all the knocking of these terms, I believe they still have some explanatory power. I think they do encompass specific ways of looking at the world. This being the case, I think it's safe to ...

I just finished reading Richard Dawkins' The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution. I thought it was pretty good but I'm not a sciency guy. I'm going to have to re-read the parts on embryology and the whole RNA/DNA/Proteins part again to get a better handle on the ideas. I might not ...

This CBC story details the United Nations' condemnation of Canadian complicity in various instances of torture. It criticizes such things as:How Canada's recent immigration law reforms put more refugees at risk of deportation to tortureThe torture-by-proxy of Muayyed Nureddin, Ahmad Abou-Elmaati ...

Holy fucking shit! In May, 2011, the anti-democratic harpercons stole a majority government (by a margin of 6,000 votes) based on a nation-wide campaign of election fraud. As a result, harper is driving a hearse through parliamentary procedures to ram through a whole gamut of right-wing nut-job ...

on Government Oversight

Winslow Wheeler, director of the Straus Military Reform Project. By BRYAN RAHIJA Several POGO staffers recently sat down with longtime defense analyst Winslow Wheeler, the director of the Straus Military Reform Project and latest addition to Team POGO, to discuss&nb ...

Digital Journal

Labatt Breweries is backing off a potential lawsuit against the Montreal Gazette. The beer maker had considered legal action against the newspaper over a photo the paper published of alleged killer Luka Rocco Magnotta holding a bottle of Labatt Blue.

Vancouver Police announced a human hand and foot were delivered to one school in the Canadian city, while another school was sent a package containing a human foot. No suspect has been identified and the investigation is ongoing.

The Canadian federal government is moving to make methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV), a key ingredient in the so-called bath salts drug, illegal, Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq said Tuesday at a news conference.

End Homelessness | Change.org

Fulfilling the wishes and happiness of children is at the heart of the holiday season. So, now seems particularly timely for Mississippi to launch a new plan to end child homelessness (pdf) in the state. What better way to set the season of giving in motion than by committing to finding safe an ...

This Thanksgiving, most of us around the country shared a bountiful harvest feast with friends and family. We celebrated all that we are thankful for by gorging ourselves right into a food coma. It's the American way. Unfortunately, it's also the American way to be thankful for all that we have ...

What are they thinking? People obviously don't see the homeless as human or they wouldn't attempt to hire them to do most of the insane, demeaning and illegal jobs out there. Here's a small sampling: Rob dead bodies. The Aokigahara forest at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan is the site of 50 to 100 ...

Instead of pretending homelessness doesn't exist, creating new laws to make it illegal to sit or sleep in public, or sending homeless residents on a one-way trip out of town, Los Angeles County may attempt to actually do something about ending homelessness. And the county is setting the bar high ...

Despite its economic troubles, Detroit is not known for being kind to the homeless. That's too bad, since there are nearly 10,000 homeless people living there. In October, police say that Steven James Diponio, 54, became so enraged at Charles Duncan, 42, who was homeless and sleeping behind a sc ...

The Harper government's dire warnings of a Russian threat in the Arctic -- at one time a regular feature of its campaign to sell Canadians on the "need" to buy the F-35 -- do not reflect its own behind-closed-doors assessment of the situation.

Kevin Trudeau Show

Anthony Morrocco morrocco method 4/11/12 Hello Everyone!! Happy Wednesday! Here’s another great customer testimonial on MM products in general, brushing and scalp massaging! “Every day I get more compliments on my hair!!! Even guys I do not really know have commented LOL!! I feel such joy brushi ...

April 11, 2012 News Daily By Martinne Geller New York, Apr. 4, 2012 (Reuters) — Surprise rippled across America last month as a new wave of consumers discovered that hamburgers often contained ammonia-treated beef, or what critics dub “pink slime”. Packs of ground beef are seen in a ...

April 11, 2012 Natural News By Lloyd Burrell NaturalNews) In today’s society of hustle and bustle, being pregnant rarely gives opportunity for letting up or taking a break. Many women, whether they are working or are stay-at-home moms, engage in the use of cell phones and laptop computers ...

April 12, 2012 Natural News By Aurora Geib “Need to boost your immune system? Try these herbs.” –KTRN Of the many systems working within the human body, the immune system is an excellent example of complex efficiency. A network of participating cells and organs, it synchronizes ...

April 12, 2012 Food Matters By Paul Fassa “Next to vitamin D, C is probably the second most powerful vitamin you can take.” –KTRN Vitamin C from citrus was introduced a couple of centuries ago as a cure for scurvy rampant among British mariners. But just what is scurvy? Scurvy ...

Armies of Liberation

The Yemeni Air Force bombed the al Samaa Republican Guard garrison in the Arhab district of Sanaa today, deliberately killing 240 guardsmen. The attack came after the troops refused to attack pro-revolution tribesmen with artillery. “The government did not stand quiet when the guards refused ord ...

In a direct rebuke to the terror group, residents of Taiz held a major protest against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) on Thursday evening after prayers. Protesters held signs denouncing AQAP that said, “Your racism will do nothing but make us stronger.” Taiz is the largest city in Yeme ...

Protesters in Yemen announced a boycott today of US and Saudi products, a largely symbolic move in light of Yemen’s grave humanitarian crisis. Protesters allege that the Obama administration has thwarted their efforts for regime change. Millions across Yemen have demanded the end to the 33 year ...

Dark Politricks

Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaven Clabough New American June 6, 2012 The Environmental Protection Agency reportedly has been using aircraft to spy on cattle ranchers in Iowa and Nebraska. Nebraska’s congressional delegation recently submitted a joi ...

Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comDissident Voice Article By Medea Benjamin and Charles Davis One could be forgiven for thinking there’s anything honorable or honest about Colin Powell. For more than two decades now the Washington media has portray ...

Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comRaw Story A woman was caught on video slapping Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett (D) on Tuesday night because she felt that he was too quick to concede to Gov. Scott Walker (R). The woman asked Walker if she could slap ...

Dark Politricks Feed View the latest alternative news at DarkPolitricks.comSaman Mohammadi Prisonplanet.com June 6, 2012 “We are living through times where evil has manifested itself with an almost revelation-like obtrusiveness and power. We have learned to understand the medieval legends ...

Dandelion Salad

by Gareth Porter Featured Writer Dandelion Salad crossposted at ISP June 5, 2012 WASHINGTON, Jun 5, 2012 (IPS) – France and Germany were prepared in spring 2005 to negotiate on an Iranian proposal to convert all of its enriched uranium to fuel rods, making it impossible to use it for nucle ...

Dandelion Salad May 31, 2012 by wwpvideo Sara Flounders, Secretariat member of Workers World Party, speaks about the protests against NATO in Chicago. Her remarks were made in May of 2012, at a Workers World Party forum in New York City. http://www.workers.org P.1 Protests Against NATO in Chicag ...

by Rick Rozoff Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Stop NATO June 2, 2012 In January of this year the three officials in charge of U.S. global military strategy and operations – commander-in-chief President Barack Obama, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff Ge ...

Dandelion Salad May 31, 2012 by Permasolutions For much more info and pictures, go here: http://permaculture.org.au PRI Zaytuna Farm Tour – Apr/May 2012 see Red Raspberries Ripening – Garden Update by Lo Collard Greens, So Good For You Have You Had Your Dandelions Today? Hope in a Changing ...

Dandelion Salad Jun 2, 2012 by RussiaToday Juice Rap News presents the new bulletin of “news show for the internet nation”. Robert Foster talks about rebel journalists who dare to challenge the establishment’s grip on information. No reliable media at a time of corporate wars. ...

Your New Reality

This man's brain comprehends in a fraction of a second what is about to happen, and orders his body into what looks like a superhuman sprint to get out of the way. The flight mechanism kicks in so fast the conscious mind, distracted by thoughts of work, home, leisure and love, plays no role in t ...

Tupac Rises Well, fuck me.... From even a few dozen rows back, reportedly, the hologram of Tupac was utterly believable. How long before a Michael Jackson hologram culled from his greatest live performances is touring the world's stadiums? I've been waiting decades to see holographic tech ...

Best. Christmas. Ever A Short Story By Darryl Mason "Is your father okay?" He waited for her to answer. He couldn't tell her what happened while she was away... "He's not getting better, if that's what you mean." How could he tell her, right now? She had more than enough on her mind alread ...

Wired - Science

This must-see video from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory shows the transit of Venus from space, taken in many different wavelengths. Other images show the transit from the International Space Station as well as here on Earth.

Israeli Occupation Archive

Several U.S. tourists report being asked by airport security personnel for access to their personal email accounts; Israel's Shin Bet security service says it acted within the law. IOA Editor:... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinia ...

The Spiegel's special report on Israel's German-made nuclear-capable Dolphin class submarines: Many have wondered for years about the exact capabilities of the submarines Germany exports to Israel.... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian l ...

The Oslo Accords permit Gazan fishermen to sail up to 20 nautical miles from shore. In practice, the furthest they were allowed to fish was 12 miles. This was shortened to six miles after 2000, and... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian la ...

Israel admitted Sunday that it uses cyberspace to attack its enemies. The confession came in a statement on the Israeli military's website. The website said it was "for the first time" revealing a... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lan ...

Israel has always denied Bedouin their rights to the land they owned before 1948, because they had no official documents from the Ottoman and British periods to prove their ownership. In those... The Israeli Occupation Archive (IOA) covers Israel's military occupation of Palestinian lands, ...

Ria Novosti - Military

A long-running dispute between the Russian military and defense industry over procurement of new weaponry may enter a new phase as Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin has questioned the need to develop a new strategic bomber, the Izvestia daily said on Wednesday.

Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces are equipped with a special ‘safe-busting’ sledgehammer that can be used in an emergency to break open the safe containing launch codes if it fails to open, a spokesman for the Rocket Forces, Col. Vadim Koval said on Wednesday.

Vitaly Orozaliyev, the head of Kyrgyzstan’s state drug control service, on Tuesday proposed inspecting the cargoes that transit the U.S. Transit Center at Manas Airport near the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek, the 24.kg news agency reported.

A competition to create a personal sensor system that measures air pollution and a person's physiological response to it will offer cash awards to finalists, federal officials announced today. The goal is to help researchers, communities, and physicians better understand the connection between a ...

May is asthma awareness month, and with summer right around the corner, a study shows that doctors may be closer to understanding why patients with mild asthma have such difficulty breathing during hot, humid weather. The study, appearing in the June print issue of the American Journal of Respir ...

Between now and July 31st 2012, USDTL offers its PEthStat(r) assay for $55 a test to all interested parties currently in Chapter 11 Bankruptcy that sign a minimum of a one year to a maximum of a five year contract.

Natural Health News

If you’re looking for a way to fight rheumatoid arthritis (RA) without drugs, then you need look no further than the spice shelf at your local market. New research published in the spring of 2012 shows that curcumin possesses potent anti-inflammatory and anti-arthritic properties. The clinical s ...

If you’ve ever gone for a walk in the woods, then you know the wonder of the feeling you get from it. But did you know that besides giving you a good feeling, walking in the woods is actually good for you? The Japanese call it shinrin-yoku. Translated, it literally means “forest bathing.” And no ...

A new study shows that aspirin and other non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprophen and naproxen may lessen the risk of three major types of skin cancer. The study was based on Danish medical records that researchers examined from 1991 through 2009. The findings showed that ...

In an effort to end hunger in Africa, the Obama administration has drafted some of the world’s largest food and finance companies to invest in projects all over the continent. Much of the effort will go toward developing seeds and fertilizers and building silos for storage. To do this, the Presi ...

Measurement of BMI―Body Mass Index―has long been the standard scoring system for determining how much excess fat you have in your body. But a new study indicates that the BMI may well be way off when it comes to measuring your true amount of fat stores. In the study, researchers used a special s ...

Climategate

Dean of science…suggesting rising seas this next century of up to 100 metres, or Al Gore six metres. When I see things like that I know these are false. You mentioned the IPCC report; that suggests, at worst on best scenarios, 59 centimetres. http://www.google.com

What are the lessons of Climategate? More honesty and transparency in science? Not according to attorney Alan Nelson in the Guardian UK today. To him, the lesson is how not to get caught next time. So how do universities and academics ensure that their correspondence does not become the “ ...

Opinio Juris

by Duncan Hollis by Duncan Hollis Just a quick note of welcome to a new blog from my friends at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs. As I noted a while back, Ron Deibert and others have been putting together a great annual interdisciplinary conversation about cyber ...

by Fernando Teson by Fernando Teson [Fernando Tesón is Tobias Simon Eminent Scholar and Professor of Law at Florida State University College of Law.] This post is part of the Targeted Killings Book Symposium. Other posts in this series can be found in the related posts below. Andy Altman offer ...

by Andrew Altman by Andrew Altman [Andrew Altman is Professor of Philosophy, and Director of Research for the Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics, at George State University.] This post is part of the Targeted Killings Book Symposium. Other posts in this series can be found in the related p ...

by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey More news in targeted strikes, complementing our book symposium this week: US officials claim that Abu Yahyi al-Libi, a high-level al-Qaeda militant, was killed in a CIA drone strike in northern Pakistan yesterday, despite Pakistan’s urging the US to stop th ...

by Jessica Dorsey by Jessica Dorsey More news in targeted strikes, complementing our book symposium this week: US officials claim that Abu Yahyi al-Libi, a high-level al-Qaeda militant, was killed in a CIA drone strike in northern Pakistan yesterday, despite Pakistan’s urging the US to stop th ...

Public News Service

Who Keeps Your Investment Adviser Honest? WASHINGTON - A U.S. House committee today takes up a bill that would allow investment advisers to police themselves, through what's called a self-regulatory organization, or "SRO." Critics of the idea say that's like putting a fox in charge of the henho ...

What the Paycheck Fairness Act Means to Arizona Children PHOENIX - The Paycheck Fairness Act is up for a vote today in the U.S. Senate. Nearly four decades after the Equal Pay Act passed, many women earn less than 80 cents to the dollar earned by men. ...(Read More)

Report: 'Killer Heat' Could Take Thousands of AZ Lives PHOENIX - Arizona's summer heat has arrived, and a new report finds that excessive heat is likely to continue in years to come, with deadly consequences. A report by the Natural Resources Defense Council predicts that 2000 people in Phoenix ...

"Put a Lid on It" to Prevent Cycling Injuries PHOENIX – Summertime school vacations in Arizona mean more time on two wheels - and riding a bike without a helmet significantly increases the risk of a head injury in the event of a crash. Emergency Room Doctor Mike Gittleman says wearing a ...

Violence Against Women Act Stalls – NOW "Condemns" House Version PHOENIX, Ariz. - The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) has been renewed twice with bipartisan support since it originally passed in 1994, but this year's reauthorization has become the object of a political battle. The Senate ...

Center for Food Safety

by Michele Simon After years of debating, petitioning, rulemaking, and outright stalling, this week the federal government is finally implementing new requirements for testing E. coli in ground beef. Why is this cause for celebration? Because while the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safet ...

By Michele Simon Few things get a media frenzy going like the combination of two words: radiation and food. Despite the ubiquitous availability of truly unhealthy foods 24/7, just raise the specter of radioactivity on our plates, and people suddenly get very serious about what they are eating. A ...

Public remains in the dark another year as the federal government considers approving genetically engineered salmon Earthjustice sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last Friday calling on the agency to provide a final substantive response to a citizen petition filed one year ...

by Bill Freese, Science Policy Analyst With Memorial Day just a few days away, many across the country will soon stop and remember the meaning of military service and the ultimate sacrifice so many gave — and are still giving. Remembering is what the day is all about. And yet sometimes we can do ...

by Michele Simon Institute of Medicine Gives Big Food Another Deadline – or else! This week, the nation’s top public health experts are gathered at a much-trumpeted obesity conference hosted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called Weight of the Nation. (A quick glance at th ...

Angry Indian Op-Eds

.:Middle East Online::The State of Journalism and Media in the New Libya:.: Journalism and media witnessed huge expansion in Libya since the first spark in the February 17 revolution. There are now around 200 printed newspapers in Tripoli and Benghazi alone, and around 18 satellite channels thro ...

GUEST POST by @jazminchavez and @juliagrob: “Latinos: Turn Off Your TV, Co�o!”: GUEST POST BY Jazmin Chavez & Julia Ahumada Grob of "East WillyB" By the time of this publication, we should all be familiar with the recent controversy regarding ABC sitcom, “Work It,” in which Puerto Rican act ...

China must abandon censorship | APNS Article 35 of China's constitution as adopted in 1982 clearly states that: "Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration." For 28 years this article has stood ...

The Billanthrope: Why I Wrote Koontown: Black people are inherently inferior. This is not something you would often hear anybody say outright—if at all. That would be racist, and we live in a time when even devout racists get offended if you actually call them “racist.” The closest we tend to ge ...

Pensieve

A report spread around the world today smears (wrongly, in my opinion) Juan Carlos Bonilla Valladares, the new Honduras police chief. It throws into relief two great problems in Latin American police forces, corruption and vigilante justice. When faced with an absolute breakdown of the justice s ...

I think the rights of copyright holders to protect their interests should not infringe on our rights to be considered innocent until proven guilty. By demanding the unilateral right to take down any website without due process, the media lobbyists are infringing the rights of all internet users. ...

Jean-Yves Blondeau, a daredevil inventor, has created a suit that allows the wearer to skate downhill while lying flat on the pavement. His suit has been featured in Jim Carrey and Zooey Deschanel’s comedy, “Yes Man“. This looks immensely fun, and quite a bit less dangerous the ...

With ever clever illustrations and motor-mouth skills that an auction salesman would admire, the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce creates impressive and inspiring videos, very worthy of our time. Related posts: Dumbledore what???? Time Magazine ran an articl ...

Should I move Pensieve to Google’s Blogger platform again? Google has recently refreshed it’s blogging platform, and added Google+ integration. Pensieve began on Google’s blogger platform. My earlier blogs were hand coded, which made a hassle out of blogging, but also made each ...

Green Times

According to a new report, high ocean temperatures contributed to the extreme rainfall that flooded three-quarters of Queensland over the summer of 2010-11. For example, 25% of rainfall across the state was due to the average sea surface temperatures in december 2010! For further information l ...

Last week, The Age website (http://www.theage.com.au/environment/conservation/giraffes-die-of-shock-after-zoo-rampage-20120515-1ynlq.html) published an article about 2 Giraffes' death from stress after a zoo rampage in Poland. Here you have an extract from this moving article: « Giraffes are ex ...

Biking is less impacting environment than cars or other transportations. It doesn't damage the environment with pollutant emission (glossary/categories/climate-change/carbon-emission.html) for example. Of course, the production of bikes and their infrastructures uses energy (glossary/categories/ ...

The ARTECYCLE Sculpture Exhibition starts today (18-May). Artecycle encourages Australian and international artists to create artwork that responds to contemporary ideas surrounding the themes of environmentalism (lifestyle/environmentalism.html) and sustainability (lifestyle/sustainable-develo ...

Israel-The Only Democracy in the Middle East?

The political earthquake that shook Israel last week went, at first, almost completely unreported in America. I can put forward some explanations why it wasn’t reported – in a nutshell, because the story is a lethal combination of confusing and embarrassing. By yesterday, however, th ...

Dear Friends and supporters, Below is a story told by Sunita Staneslow on the new friendship and the start of musical cooperation between her, an Israeli harpist, and Yasmin (Ikhlas) Jebara, a young Palestinian poet and graduate student living under Occupation in the village of Salem near Nablus ...

Several large families–among them, Ihrizat, Ihraini, and Abu Samra–belong to Um al-’Amad, perched on a high hill west of the desert and directly across from the drab and violent settlement of Otniel. In fact, Otniel sits on the Abu Samra family’s lands. Like all other ...

(this diary by Ehud Krinis is crossposted from the Villages Group blog) As we do every week, last Thursday April 5 2012 we went to visit several Palestinian localities in the South Hebron Hills, with whom we have been in contact for some years now. Two members of our little group – Hamed and Er ...

Me and Mousa in court. Jonathan Pollak going to jail Originally posted on Rajeefsworld.posterous.com A lot has been written recently about my good friend Jonathan Pollak’s recent incarceration in Israel for his participation in demonstrations. Understandably, there was international out ...

Politics in the Zeros

Mission accomplished. Genuine revolt and dissent was channeled into the Democratic Party and neutralized.Matt StollerBy calling for a recall instead of a general strike after Walker stripped collective bargaining rights and cut benefits for workers, labor and Democratic leadership in the state d ...

“The percentage of Americans who call themselves independents has hit a 75-year high, and Democrats and Republicans have moved further apart.” — Pew Research CenterThe two parties continue to lose members and those that remain become more calcified and polarized. We are seeing ...

Zazzle bumperstickerMarc Cooper on FacebookRegarding Wisconsin: I’m reposting a comment below from my pal and long time community organizer Horace Small who fully gets what happened tonite. His words: “Bro…this wasn’t a defeat…it was an ass-whipping. In any politica ...

In early counts in closely watched contests, pension reform is ahead by huge margins in both San Jose and San Diego. Both are major cities. San Jose is liberal, San Diego less so. Thus these votes indicate an emerging bipartisan consensus and will encourage other municipalities to put pension re ...

As Israel’s diplomatic position erodes and the Palestinian Authority’s campaign for the unilateral recognition of a state in the 1967 borders gains ground, the demand for “direct negotiations” has become a central talking point of Israeli government spokespeople. Here&#8 ...

On December 24 2010, Yediot’s Friday Political Supplement ran an interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick by Adi Gold. Most of the interview was dedicated to his new biography of Barack Obama. Gold did ask a political question on Israel and Reminck’s response was very blunt. No ...

Breaking the Silence has just published a landmark collection of soldier testimonies from the Occupied Territories spanning the period 2000-2010. The 432 page book can now be browsed, downloaded and embedded here. If you read nothing else, take the time to look over the first to pages of the int ...

This Maariv article [full translation below] from Friday is particularly badly written and repetitive, so I’ll summarize. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decides to hold the first Jerusalem International Marathon in March 2011. He gets Adidas to sponsor the event. An Israeli runner registers an ...

Deadline Live

Maybe a little Poison wont kill you? Guess this sheds new light on NYC Soda Ban? ‘Back in January, the state of California added to its list of cancer-causing chemicals an ingredient commonly used in flavored soda beverages, which has sent major shockwaves throughout the processed f ...

By Greg Mathieson, Time Life Pictures, via Getty Images USA Today Federal judges approve about 30,000 secret warrants to spy on people in the USA every year, and the innocent probably will never know they were watched, says a U.S. jurist involved in issuing the orders. Magistrate Judge St ...

After a year of bullying, threats, astro-turfing, and MSNBC exploding head Ed Shultz’s whining… Gov Scott Walker and the GOP win big in Wisconsin’s recall. It wasn’t even close. Does this mean the End of the Unions? No. Or the “End of Democracy”? Maybe as Demo ...

The Air Vent

As we have continued to argue on the last thread about whether it makes sense to sort trees by ‘sensitivity’ to temperature (it doesn’t), we left off one of the most important critiques of dendroclimatology. This has been discussed here before in the context of Dr. Craig Loeh ...

As we have continued to argue on the last thread about whether it makes sense to sort trees by ‘sensitivity’ to temperature (it doesn’t), we left off one of the most important critiques of dendroclimatology. This has been discussed here before in the context of Dr. Craig Loeh ...

So I left a comment at RC today bolded below. The boys are stinging again because they are as good at PR as most engineers I know. You know the lack of disclosure of data not used, is nearly equivalent to the regression methods which automatically reject data not preferred. The mere fact that ...

So I left a comment at RC today bolded below. The boys are stinging again because they are as good at PR as most engineers I know. You know the lack of disclosure of data not used, is nearly equivalent to the regression methods which automatically reject data not preferred. The mere fact that ...

It looks like I missed quite a bit over the last couple of weeks. Not only have I not been writing, I haven’t done any reading! Very unusual for me. I had to check if global warming was still happening, whether the sea still had ice and whether climategate 3.0 had broken out. It turne ...

Focal Point

Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summ ...

Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...

Business reporter Spencer Soper of The Morning Call has won the October Sidney Award from the Sidney Hillman foundation for his expose of Dickensian conditions in Amazon.com's warehouse in Pennsylvania. Temperatures inside the "fulfillment center" soared to over 100 degrees over the summer ...

Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the ...

Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation of citizens against smallpox and mandated the inoculation of the Continental Army, under the . ...

Inside Facebook

Facebook’s feature phone applications once again topped our list of pages with the most new Likes this week. The top 20 fastest growing Pages this week gained between 315,271 and more than 2.8 million Likes. We compile this list with … Continue reading →

FBML apps are set to stop working today as part of the removal of Facebook Markup Language. Facebook also announced that it will remove the live stream plugin from the platform in favor of the comments box. Some old page … Continue reading →

Facebook today begins rolling out a new mobile payments flow that brings the number of steps down from seven to two, the company said in a blog post. The new carrier billing option, announced in February, is now live for … Continue reading →

Facebook’s latest News Feed redesign — featuring larger photos and text, as well as a new format for links — is likely to affect how users engage with page posts and advertisements. Here’s a comparison of how posts appear in the … Continue reading →

ReDress News

Stuart Littlewood looks at the heroic efforts of students in the besieged Gaza Strip to compete in an international event despite the sadistic obstructions of the Israeli regime, international cowardice and sheer bad luck.

Alan Hart views the Zionist-manufactured myth that the 1967 war was a defensive war - rather than a war of aggression - launched by Israel because it faced a threat of extermination by its Arab neighbours, and laments the lazy - or Zionist-motivated - journalism which continues to perpetuate thi ...

Jamal Kanj argues that, in dealing with the issue of Iran's nuclear programme, the five-plus-one countries - the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany - "should be guided by reason, not by Israel's irrational paranoia that foresees other nations' 'potential' development and kno ...

Gilad Atzmon looks at how Britain's Israel lobby, led by arch-Zionist Education Secretary Michael Gove, has mobilized in condemnation of the country’s largest school examinations body for setting a question that asked students to explain "why some people are prejudiced against Jews".

Amazon Rainforest

Thousands of illegal gold miners battled police for control of a regional capital in the Amazon basin on Wednesday and at least three people were killed by gunfire. Outnumbered riot police fired tear gas against miners who wielded clubs and rocks and tried to seize strategic facilities in Puert ...

The Forest Code is dwindling, and with it the Brazilian forests. Soon to be voted in the House, the text that distorts the country’s main environmental law was the target of a demonstration today in Brasilia, which brought together social movements and environmental groups, asking the Pr ...

Spanish energy cooperation Endesa (subsidiary enterprise of the Italian Enel cooperation) is builiding a giant hydro-electric power plant next to the River Magdalena, Colombia- The construction work has started today- the protest camps of the local farmers and fishermen have been evacuated by fo ...

The group of students, part of Yale’s annual Rainforest Expedition and Laboratory with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel, ventured to the jungles of Ecuador. The mission was to allow “students to experience the scientific inquiry process in a comprehensive and creative way.&#8 ...

Loggers in Brazil captured an eight-year-old girl from one of the Amazon’s last uncontacted tribes and burned her alive as part of a ‘campaign’ to force the indigenous population from its land! Sign Petition and share: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/813/288/541/ The ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

Getting Closer to New Theaters of War By Rick Rozoff Ahead of, during and after the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s 25th summit in Chicago on May 20-21, the Pentagon has continued expanding its permanent military presence in the former Yugoslavia and the rest of the Balkan region. The milit ...

BFP Nightly Quote “Once lead this people into war and they’ll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. To fight you must be brutal and ruthless and the spirit of ruthlessness will enter into the very fiber of our national life, infecting Congress, the courts, the policeman on ...

Los Pinos Retains Las Vegas-Based R&R Partners to Promote Government’s Successes as the Bloody Drug War Rages On The administration of Felipe Calderón has retained a politically connected US advertising and public relations firm to promote the political and economic agenda of the Mexic ...

Nina Simone This week’s BFP/Jamiol pick is “I Shall Be Released” written by Bob Dylan in 1967. It has been covered many times by a slew of singers across the musical landscape. None did it better than the late American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights act ...

Bookstores, Signing Arrangement, Media Coverage & More Since the release of Classified Woman I have been receiving dozens of e-mails each day, and with those e-mails come many questions regarding the status of the book. As always, with my frantic schedule, I’ve been saving the e-mails to res ...

Afro Spear

Although there have been much brouhahas and rumpus from Mombasa Republic Council (MRC), agitating for cessation from Kenya, the truth is what MRC is trying to do is treason. For nobody can declare a republic within a republic and fall short of committing treason. Therefore, legally speaking, MRC ...

Op-ed submission by Project 21 Our nation’s current political battle about same-sex marriage reminds me of the film “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome” in which rivals fight it out in a cage to chants of “two men enter, one man leaves!” I also recall Tina Turner’s song from the film. She belts out: “We ...

Another missionary in Africa: the Bill Gates myth The Egyptian Elections and the Arab Spring The War on Gays Why I Don’t Support Same Sex Marriage New French Socialist Government Appoint 3 Black Cabinet Ministers

Expose the BNP

Over the summer we have seen the extreme right enter parliament in Sweden and racist deportations of Roma people from France. Here at home the EDL have continued to target cities with Muslim communities, while the police are bringing trumped-up charges against anti-fascists. November 6 sees a na ...

A BNP activist is living a secret double life, desperate to prevent his employers from finding out about his extremist views – despite having stood as a candidate in last month’s election. Tom Holmes (25) received 715 votes in the recent elections for Rotherham Council but has managed to keep hi ...

The British National Party have suffered a humiliating defeat in the general election when Nick Griffin failed to gain a Westminster seat for the East London ward of Barking. Labour MP Margaret Hodge secured the seat with a 16,000 majority, with Griffin trailing third after the Conservative cand ...

On the day that the BNP launches its election manifesto, Expose the BNP has researched 10 questions for journalists to put to the BNP leader, the answers to which reveal him to be a deeply racist, anti-Semitic Holocaust denier who boasts about his criminal past. 1. In which year did you stop den ...

On yesterday’s Today programme, BNP leader Nick Griffin told the Radio Four audience that “Liberal economics … have utterly bankrupted this country.” The truth is that Nick Griffin was himself declared bankrupt in 1991. Over several years thereafter he destroyed his parents’ finances as we ...

Ode Magazine

A search for the healing power of sound I’m lying in A bed that’s as hard as nails with a series of strings along the sides and two gongs above my head. It’s known as a gong bath, and Gwen de Jong, a practitioner of sound healing at Spirit Connection in Amsterdam ...

What my father’s recipe for pasta marinara says about the future of capitalism As the daughter of a Neapolitan, I grew up eating pasta with marinara sauce. My father didn’t always make it from scratch, but he did so often enough for me to follow his recipe through memories. Fr ...

In the prosperous West, we generally only get worked up about clean water and electricity when the bill arrives in the mail, and we discover that once again, we’ve been showering too long and leaving the lights on too often. But in many parts of the world, people can only dream ...

Mosquitoes are so difficult to elude because they pursue us via the CO2 exhaled in our breath. That’s annoying when we’re relaxing outside on a summer evening, but it’s devastating for the 200 to 300 million people who contract malaria annually. More than 1 millio ...

Celebrating the return of the bald eagle In the Iowa winter, as the poet Robert Hass wrote, “a farmer’s dreams are narrow,” and autumn can inspire me with a kind of dread as I work in the garden that will soon be buried under snow. But this coming winter, as the ...

OpEd News

Could you be elected President and not know it? In California, nobody will ever know if a great unofficial write-in candidate defeats Barack Obama in the 2012 Democratic Primary as not one single vote for an unofficial candidate will be counted. With Democrats deserting Obama in a mass exodus, ...

Switchboard

Kit Kennedy, Counsel, Air and Energy Program, New York This blog was co-written by Meg Waltner and Kit Kennedy Under a federal law signed by President Reagan in 1987, the Department of Energy sets cost-effective and technically feasible energy effi ...

Rachel Fried, Program Assistant, Lands and Communications, Washington, D.C. When I tell people I work for the Natural Resources Defense Council, I often receive questions about CBS’s sitcom, How I Met Your Mother and Jason Segal’s charac ...

Sarah Chasis, Senior Attorney and Director, Ocean Initiative, New York This week in our nation’s capital, ocean leaders, advocates and businesses, along with ocean champions in Congress, are taking a closer look at the future of our ...

Meleah Geertsma, Staff Attorney, Midwest Program, Chicago, IL With the spotlight shining on air and water pollution from the oil and gas industry, new attention is being paid to the leakage of methane, a powerful climate-changing pollutant, from the ...

Lawyers,Guns,& Money

This time, it’s Barbara Jones, a Clinton appointee to the District Court. It’s based on a broader theory than last week’s 1CA ruling, and hence is less likely to stand up in its current form, but it’s not bad to have a strict scrutiny opinion out there in case Kennedy dec ...

I disagree with the bottom line of Ezra Klein’s analysis of the Wisconsin recall, but for somewhat different reasons than Erik and some other analysts I admire have expressed. I think that to read Klein’s post as dismissive of or hostile to labor is erroneous, and is also not justi ...

Dana Goldstein’s latest column about youth unemployment is deeply problematic. Certainly youth unemployment is a gigantic problem. The new statistics showing that only 1/6 of recent high school graduates who are not going onto college has a full-time job is terrible. And there’s noth ...

A lot of coverage of Wisconsin, as one would expect. A few notes on this. First, David Gergen, anti-union hack. Ezra Klein’s response was a bit frustrating. He discusses labor’s failure entirely in terms of a post-Citizens United world. Now to be fair, it was labor who agreed to turn ...

For some reason, Hustling Danny Murphy’s would-be transition to second base has generally gotten positive reviews. Last night’s ugliness may be a good time to note, however, that Murphy has been terrible, the worst 2B in baseball this year except for Richie Weeks, who has been a mu ...

Desert Research Institute

The Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents presented Gannet Hallar, Ph.D. of the Desert Research Institute (DRI) with the 2012 Rising Researcher Award in acknowledgment of her contributions to the field of atmospheric science and her potential for future accomplishments.

Speaking at an important state-wide water summit in March, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval lauded DRI’s METRIC program calling its Landsat satellite technology an important tool in monitoring water usage.

Speaking at an important state-wide water summit in March, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval lauded DRI’s METRIC program calling its Landsat satellite technology an important tool in monitoring water usage.

The Desert Research Institute’s Net Zero Building was honored by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) and Senator Harry Reid at the USGBC Northern Nevada Chapter luncheon for its goals and plans to create an independently sustainable structure.

National Law Journal | U.S.

A report released Tuesday by the Department of Homeland Security's acting inspector general highlights major problems across the 200,000-person agency, from "significant deficiencies" in financial reporting to employees taking bribes for smuggling drugs or approving citizenship applications.

The Louisiana federal judge overseeing the Deepwater Horizon oil spill litigation has set up a separate docket to handle a growing list of objections to the proposed $7.8 billion settlement with BP PLC. More than 35 objections arrived on the first day.

Two lawyers from defunct Dewey & LeBoeuf have opened an Albany, N.Y., office for Cullen and Dykman, a 275-attorney law firm based in Garden City, N.Y. Brian FitzGerald joins as a partner and practices in the areas of utilities, banking, education, litigation and bankruptcy. Joining him is former ...

Alaska is the only state without a law school, but would-be lawyers from the so-called "Last Frontier" may be able to complete at least some of their legal education close to home in the future. Seattle University School of Law and the University of Alaska Anchorage are working on a joint progra ...

How Shall We Do The Mountain ?

The Clean Air Council and Penn Environment, state-wide environmental groups, will give an educational workshop in Tioga County for residents of north-central Pennsylvania on Saturday, March 24, 1-4 PM. The training will be held at the W.M. Tokishi Training Center, NYPUM Drive, Wellsboro, PA 1690 ...

Since I now live in south central PA (I moved south from Tioga County; north central PA) and have less access to the center of the gas drilling, I frequently use State Impact PA as a resource as well as tune in to WITF radio on my commutes to work, when I’m not pedaling my [...]

I happen to be looking for the location of a specific Northwest Savings Bank in PA and when I pulled up their website I found the below link. http://www.oilandgashelp.com/ It looks like Northwest Savings Bank has put together a section of their website to answer questions or help folks who are c ...

I thought I’d highlight a few of the items that I find horrifying that passed with house bill 1950 during yesterdays vote. Municipalities will no longer be safe from drilling and the acceptable distances of drilling pads and compressor stations from homes or public spaces, such as schools, ...

From the DCNR website: In recent years there has been a marked increase in natural gas activity in state forests in north central Pennsylvania . Visitor experiences and road usage can be impacted by this activity. Loyalsock State Forest Bodine Mountain Road: Heavy gas activity is to be expected ...

Women's groups were among the more articulate social forces in post-Emergency India. Many ordinary women were becoming part of what came to be known as the second phase of the Indian women's movement in the late Seventies and early Eighties. The c

environment 360

Even small doses of a flame retardant commonly used in furniture and baby products has been linked to harmful health effects, including obesity and developmental and reproductive problems, according to a new study. Speaking at a conference in Canada, Duke University chemist Heather Stapleton sai ...

Cities worldwide are increasingly aware of the need to prepare for the effects of climate change — including increased variability in temperatures and extreme ICLEI weather events — but are often hampered by limited financial resources and political commitment, according to a new survey by t ...

A new report finds that an unexpectedly large number of UK farmers have installed renewable energy systems such as solar panels and wind turbines on their properties, a trend that could increase the profitability Shutterstock of the agricultural sector and help the UK achieve its green energy ...

Rising water temperatures and a reduction in river flows have caused declining production at some thermoelectric power plants in the U.S. and Europe, a trend that will likely continue for decades as the planet warms, according to a new study. Writing in em>Nature Climate Change, researchers esti ...

Across a large area of western Siberia, shrubs are rapidly growing into trees more than six feet tall, a process that is expected to further increase temperatures in this rapidly warming part of the Arctic, according to a new study. Relying on satellite images and fieldwork, scientists from Oxfo ...

Red Ice Creations

An Islamist who believes that the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States were an American conspiracy is the front-runner in Egypt’s presidential race, a new poll shows. Abdel-Moneim Abolfotoh, formerly a leading figure in the Muslim Brotherhood, led the field of 13 candidates with 32 percen ...

Two new studies flag an underreported factor in global ocean change Pumping groundwater, some 70 percent of it to irrigate crops, has recently become a potent force in global sea-level rise, two new studies conclude. It sounds obvious: Once brought to the surface, water will eventually run into ...

In the remote northeastern corner of Guatemala, archaeologists have found what appears to be the 9th century workplace of a city scribe, an unusual dwelling adorned with magnificent pictures of the king and other royals and the oldest known Maya calendar. Image: Source This year has been particu ...

Grade-school students in a northeastern Brazilian city are using uniforms embedded with locator chips that help alert parents if they’re cutting classes, the city’s education secretary said Thursday. Twenty thousand students in 25 of Vitoria da Conquista’s 213 public schools started using T-shir ...

When international law designed to stop war crimes is used by war criminals. A historic ruling handed down by the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal found former-US President George W. Bush and his associates guilty of war crimes including torture. Using standards provided by the International Cri ...

Russia Today

Afghan officials have once again accused NATO of a deadly strike resulting in civilian casualties. Ahmed Quraishi, from the PakNationalists Forum, says that in last decade Afghanistan has lost more civilians than the... Read Full Article at RT.com

Amnesty International has called on the Israeli government to release Palestinians held in custody without charge or give them a fair trial, condemning the Israeli practice of “administrative detention” as a violation... Read Full Article at RT.com

After his eponymously-named lab discovered Flame, "the most sophisticated cyber weapon yet unleashed," Eugene Kaspersky believes that the evolving threat of “cyber terrorism” could spell the end of life on Earth as we... Read Full Article at RT.com

Not My Tribe

Gosh, church people are so loving, aren’t they? Church where toddler’s anti-gay song was filmed: Say, ‘We don’t condone hate’ …(Yeah right!) _____Who in their right mind would want to spend an eternity in heaven if that’s where these ‘Christian ‘ Right W ...

____What the heck?!!!! Ser Chapín es ??? These are names used by people of Central American countries to refer to themselves. it can be used affectionately or as a measure of disrespect, depending on the context. like Yankee for US, Canucks or Hosers for Canada, etc Guanaco – El Salvador C ...

____The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is a Chinese defense coalition now planning to counter the war plans of the US/ NATO militaries who have occupied Afghanistan and Iraq, and have recently begun ‘covert’ wars against the Syrian and Iranian governments. On June 6-7 they w ...

Mexico’s presidential selection is just one month away, and voters feel increasingly like the supposedly democratic system there is locking out of any consideration their often voiced desires to end the US pushed ‘war on drugs’ that is tearing up their country. The US and Mexic ...

Debunking the Debunkers

By "Truth Sleuth" 1. Dummy up. If it's not reported, if it's not news, it didn't happen. 2. Wax indignant. This is also known as the "How dare you?" gambit. 3. Characterize the charges as "rumors" or, better yet, "wild rumors." If, in spite of the news blackout, the public is still able to l ...

National Geographic reaired their 9/11 interview with George W. Bush this morning. Bush: "See in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." - May 24, 2005 This reminded us of another famous quo ...

Fooducate

New here? Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App! Or try Fooducate on the Web! Yesterday in Washington DC, Robert Iger, Chairman of the Walt Disney Company, and First Lady Michelle Obama announced a new initiative in the uphill battle against childhood obesity. For starters, Disney is u ...

New here? Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App! Or try Fooducate on the Web! Clif Bar is one of the hottest health snack companies on the market. Their bars for hikers, athletes, women, and even kids are tremendously popular. They also have a line of fruit snacks for kids called Clif ...

New here? Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App! Or try Fooducate on the Web! Northern Italy was struck by an Earthquake a few weeks ago, with the unfortunate deaths of 17 people. A culinary casualty of the 5.8 quake is the country’s Parmesan cheese industry. About 10% of the Par ...

New here? Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App! Or try Fooducate on the Web! Less than 8% of the calories we consume are from bitter foods. But perhaps we need to increase that percentage. It turns out that the bitter taste is an expression of the antioxidants that are so healthy for ...

New here? Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App! Or try Fooducate on the Web! This is a guest post by Lisa Cain, PhD, a.k.a Snack-Girl I decided to put “Good Read” in my title in the hopes that you will actually read what I have to say. Every year, I post a rhubarb recipe a ...

Traffikd

Twitter management can be a daunting task. There are a lot of articles telling you the do's and don'ts of Twitter, however it can still be difficult to pin down exactly what you should be doing each day step by step. If you are having a hard time getting organized and keeping up with everything ...

When was the last time you thought about your site beyond adding content? It is probably time to take a look at how things are organized. When you started the site you had certain goals, ideas and experiences, now as time has passed it is a good idea to take another look at those goals [...]

Every day millions of searches are performed on the internet and all of those search terms are saved and provided to us to peruse at our discretion. Unfortunately, on the other hand, there are millions of searches performed every day on the internet and ALL that data is saved and provided to us ...

So you took the first step and signed yourself up for some social media sites and started marketing yourself and now you're waiting for the traffic to start rolling in. You've done your research about social media marketing and everyone tells you to find followers, engage them and turn them into ...

Twitter recently made claims that they had reached 100 million users. A fairly impressive feat to be sure, and that is reflected in the pull people give to twitter as a social media outlet. Great tweets can make you a star as fast bad ones can kill your image. Most of the time tweets just pass ...

Greg Palast

Vultures' Picnic will launch in London on June 26. Special Guests include Anna Chen and Penny Red. Participants: Jubilee Debt Campaign and Occupy London. For tickets and more information click here. For media requests and review copies contact: olivershykles(at)gmail.com

by Greg Palast Saturday, 26. May, 2012 Greg Palast investigated BP in Azerbaijan and worldwide for Channel 4 Dispatches. Will “Beyond Petroleum” oil giant BP pick the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest today in Baku, Azerbaijan? If so, I wouldn’t be surprised. When I was arrested by the ...

by Mark Bebawi It’s rare for us to have guest articles, but Pacifica Radio host of The Monitor, Mark Bebawi, has insight into an issue where to be dumb is to be deadly. Mark, born and raised in Cairo, wrote his master’s dissertation at Oxford on the Egyptian ...

What a terrible task to take on at such a dark moment when I would prefer to keep my thoughts private, but someone must speak. I am, and I hope you are, sickened to see Rupert Murdoch's New York Post savage our colleague Robert F. Kennedy Jr. while he and his children are in great distress. I wi ...

Our deepest sympathy goes out to the family of our friend and colleague, Bobby Kennedy, and his children, on the tragic death of his wife and their mother, Mary. Our thoughts tonight are with your family. - Greg, Leni & Zach

How Can I Recycle This ?

Apologies for the break in blogging – I’ve been super busy with other things over the last month. And in my absence, Recycle This had its sixth birthday! Happy Birthday website! :D Anyway, moving on: we’ve had an email from Stephanie about toilet seats: I just came into about 2 ...

Lyndon has emailed to ask about reusing – or recycling – propane gas canisters (the ones for heating, barbecues or patio heaters etc): Trying to tidy up the yard at work, what can I do with some old gas bottles? If there is a company name on the bottles (like Calor Gas, Flo Gas or [...]

Sam has emailed asking about large food cans: I have a number of large metal food cans, some zinc lined, which are called #10 size. They hold about 5 or 6 lbs (just under 3kg) of beans, or other foods. Now that they’re empty, they are open on one end, with no plastic lid to [...]

Last September, Karen emailed us about the vast collection of novelty jester hats that her boyfriend had collected at various carnivals and festivals over the years. She wanted to know how she could reuse or recycle them as she hadn’t had much success giving them away. Lots of people made ...

Following on from the paint tester pots the other week, I’ve got some wallpaper samples that have served their purpose too. I really can’t wait for our renovations to be over! Like the paint, the samples were to check out ideas/colours/designs in-situ. Some of them were torn from rol ...

Age of Autism

By Rebecca Fergusen Twenty-seven minutes. The slice of time remaining between school drop off and a new therapist interview. Still un-showered, pulling the car into the garage, a million things reeled through my mind. But they’d have to wait. And...

You can call us speechless on this one.... it's just nutty. Psychopathology. 2012 May 22;45(4):215-219. [Epub ahead of print] Are Names of Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder More 'Hyperactive'? Shoval G, Manor I, Nahshoni E, Weizman A, Zalsman G....

By Nancy Hokkanen Here's an excerpt from The Mayo Clinic's page on the Poland & Jacobson paper, in time for the recent infant immunization week. Physician’s Guide for Anti-Vaccine Parents Posted on April 23, 2012 by Robert Nellis In the...

By Anne Dachel If you’re like me, you’re sick to death of reporters telling you that all the science shows no link between vaccines and autism. Members of the press don’t hesitate to remind the public on a daily basis...

By Anne Dachel I recently listened to a recording of the April 2, 2012 Tom Ashbrook Show on NPR in Boston. It featured Dr. Geraldine Dawson, chief science officer for the advocacy group Autism Speaks, and Dr. Max Wiznitzer, pediatric...

Farm Wars

There is also the evolving problem of glyphosate’s killing of beneficial gut microbes that suppress botulinum bacteria resulting in chronic, systemic botulism poisoning and death in cattle with probably findings also in humans. One study on SIDS babies found that 20% of Sudden Infant Death Syndr ...

Weather control, geoengineering, and genetic modification are man’s attempt to take over the earth’s natural ecosystem and design it according to his own limited concept. But is it wise, prudent, or safe to leave the re-designing of the earth up to some men in little white lab coats who think th ...

While we run in circles trying to get someone in Congress to listen, we could be going straight to the source and giving people the information they need to understand that GMOs are unhealthy, have been put in our food without our consent or knowledge, and the only way to stop the GMO takeover i ...

GMOs go Stealth in the Face of Mounting Support for Honest Labeling Barbara H. Peterson Farm Wars In the fight for the safety of our food supply, many are jumping on the bandwagon to get honest labeling for foods that were produced via genetic modification (GMOs). Is this even possible? The Euro ...

People have been misinformed about the tragedy at Fukushima and its consequences. There is a continuing cover up, the reactors have not been stabilized, and radiation continues to be released. The Japanese College of Intravenous Therapy (JCIT) has recently released a video for people wishing to ...

Open Your Eyes News

ScienceDaily — The palms that Vietnamese villagers weave into hats, many varieties of lichens that depend on the pristine environment of the Great Smoky Mountains, and small, shrub-like trees that are threatened by development and deforestation in Brazil were among the scores of plant and fungus ...

Telegraph – PIRC, the shareholder advisory group, has analysed the 2011 accounts of the UK’s top five banks to calculate how much they expect to write off as bad debt in the coming years but have yet to take against profits. Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) was in the worst condition, PI ...

Daily Mail – The U.S Air Force’s highly secret unmanned space plane will land in June – ending a year-long mission in orbit. The experimental Boeing X37-B has been circling Earth at 17,000 miles per hour and was due to land in California in December. It is now expected to land in mid ...

Guardian – The British government is forcibly deporting asylum seekers who are then tortured in Sri Lanka, according to the testimony of one victim who was left scarred and suicidal after a brutal two-week ordeal. The victim told the Guardian he was tortured over the space of 17 days after ...

In 2007 Naomi Wolf published “The End Of America – Letter Of Warning To A Young Patriot”. In it she outlined the steps that societies have taken throughout history that have led them away from freedom. To find out more why these lessons are so important today CLICK HERE

L.A. Times - Greenspace

Those labyrinthine IKEA showrooms full of dirt-cheap shelving units have to come from somewhere. According to a report released May 16 by the Global Forest Coalition, some of them are clear-cut from old-growth forests in Western Russia.

Acknowledging the existence of animal cruelty is unpleasant, and getting people to actually watch footage of it is understandably difficult. The folks at Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM) found one way: Pay them.

In a stunning turnaround for an act of Congress, a judge ruled Wednesday that a counterterrorism provision of the National Defense Authorization Act, an annual defense appropriations bill, is unconstitutional. Federal district Judge Katherine B. Forrest issued an injunction against use of the ...

Jamie Caissie says he's picky about the gas he puts in his GMC Sierra truck. For years, the 35-year-old flooring contractor only filled up at 76 brand stations, but on a recent Monday, he decided to try something new: the Propel Clean Mobility Center in Fullerton, which sells E85 flex fuel and b ...

water.org

Recorded: Tuesday, June 5, 2012 Duration: 38:07 Laura Ralston, International Programs Manager at Water.org, shared stories and experiences from her three most recent trips to Haiti and what's been going on with our projects there. Laura also focused on the sanitation needs Haitians are fac ...

The chore of finding water follows a girl all her life. Will the girl be carrying water like this when she's the same age as the woman? Does the woman carry a burden her granddaughter will never have to bear? Or will the girl only have faint memories of not having easy access to water?

In many urban places around the world, public and private services deliver water through a patchwork network of trucks - or water lorries as they are known in south Asia. A trucker shares his perspective on the water crisis.

Prior to the introduction of pour flush toilets to Ndeeba Parish, Uganda, residents were using plastic bags as toilets and disposing of them in the drainage channels. This was causing environmental and health hazards for the people living in this slum. New technology changed all that.

Energy Probe - Nuclear Power,Utility Reform

The science is settled - is now the mantra of climate change activism? Those who disagree are either in denial or in the pay of an oil company. But long time environmentalist and energy activist Lawrence Solomon says no, the science is not settled on global warming. Ideas producer David Cayley b ...

Do you know the frustration you feel when you believed in something strongly and then you realize that the information that made you believe was from a source with an agenda to deceive? Submitted by Ken D. to World | Note-it! | Add a Comment

Aggressive war is illegal, immoral against nations that are no threat, is nonbelligerent & it is insane! Call your Reps. Tell your friends, rouse up the good folk in your church,mosque and synagouge. We must stop this exported violence or we are screwed. Submitted by michael hall to World &nbs ...

In this Jan. 19, 2003 file photo, Zarghona, who is in prison because she left her first husband who abused her and forced her into prostitution, holds her seven-month-old son Balal and looks out through their cell window, at the Kabul Women's Prison in Submitted by Maria V. to World |&nb ...

Palestinians have increasingly lost access to water sources in the West Bank as a result of the takeover of springs by Israeli settlers, who have used threats, intimidation and fences to ensure control of water points closed to tne settlements, Submitted by Naoko I. to World | &nbs ...

Women's groups were among the more articulate social forces in post-Emergency India. Many ordinary women were becoming part of what came to be known as the second phase of the Indian women's movement in the late Seventies and early Eighties. The c

SHARE AND DISCUSSTweet PUNE: The southwest monsoon finally made an onset over Kerala on Tuesday, five days later than its June 1 forecast. It is likely to reach Pune and Mumbai in three-four days. In the last 24 hours, the monsoon...

Tweet Washington, June 6 (ANI): Patients with type 2 diabetes have a 20 percent increased risk of developing blood cancers, such as non-Hodgkin lymphoma, leukemia and myeloma, according to a new meta-analysis. The findings add to the growing evidence base linking diabetes and certain types o ...

Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy

Taped interrogations of four soldiers charged in theatrically slaying numerous Afghan civilians were obtained by CNN and ABC. CNN's report includes the soldiers' rampant drug abuse and a before unreported case of staging the murder of an Afghan civilian.

MY Daily Apple

Official guidance about postnatal care may need to be updated after researchers have found that Johnson's Baby Extra Sensitive Wipes were just as safe and hydrating as water and cotton wool on newborn skin. The study is published in BMC Pediatrics...

African-American and Latino children whose mothers smoked during pregnancy are more likely to suffer from acute asthma symptoms in their teens than asthma sufferers whose mothers did not smoke, according to a new study led by a research team at UCSF...

A new study, published online in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology states that false positive and false negative results have been produced by current Down syndrome and Edwards syndrome screening methods, but researchers have found a new genetic test which is close to 100% accura ...

Common Dreams

In a move that echoes Quebec's recently enacted Law 78, the Russian parliament has just passed a law that skyrockets fines for "illegal" protests. Opponents see the law as "draconian" and believe it will only serve to further catalyze the protest movement. ...

CIA drones are reportedly reviving the use of highly-controversial tactics that target rescuers and funeral-goers. On Monday US drones attacked rescuers in Waziristan in western Pakistan minutes after an initial strike, killing 16 people in total according to the BBC. On May 28, drones were also ...

Whistleblower Pfc. Bradley Manning appeared today at a military court outside of DC in the first day of a three day pretrial hearing. Manning's lawyers are seeking dismissal of 10 of the 22 counts against him. Manning's defense argues the counts in question are either unconstitutionally ...

Robert Grenier, a former CIA counter-terrorism head, has slammed President Obama's drone program telling the UK's Guardian that we have been "seduced" by drones and that the drones are killing people "indiscriminately." While White House Press Secretary Jay Carney tol ...

17 civilians have been killed in a NATO airstrike in eastern Afghanistan, according to a local official in Logar province. Al-Jazeera reports that the target of the strike was the house of a tribal elder in the district of Baraki Barak, citing the head of the Logar provincial council. Deny ...

Energy Collective

There have been a significant number of questions raised about Allison Macfarlane’s nomination to the NRC commission with the stated intent to make her chair of the same as soon as she is sworn in as a commissioner. Lots of comments both for and against her nomination have clouded the issues.

Konarka Technologies, a developer of thin-film solar panels, has filed for bankruptcy and will begin to liquidate its assets immediately.The failure of Massachusetts-based company will lead to 85 employees losing their jobs, and another perceived black eye for America's solar industry.

A three-year summary of America’s first carbon trading program was released yesterday. The news is pretty good for anyone who cares about reducing carbon emissions; it’s inconvenient for anyone hell-bent on preventing America from implementing a carbon pricing plan.

Green House - USA Today

How badly is climate change affecting your state? A new Web tool allows users to see how vulnerable their area has been to drought, flooding and heat extremes as well as the health problems that go along with them.

What's a parent to do? You buy a car seat to keep your child safe but then find out, as a new study reports, that 60% of these products contain dangerous chemicals. The good news: some seats were found to be almost toxic-free.

Peoples Voice

By Cosmic Convergence Research Group If Americans only felt the pain and suffering caused by the US Government's war machine.... Is there any doubt that the United States of America is the military arm of the New World Order (NWO), as it has been since World War I? Just as the City of L ...

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts Ever since the beginning of the financial crisis and quantitative easing, the question has been before us: How can the Federal Reserve maintain zero interest rates for banks and negative real interest rates for savers and bond holders when the US government is adding $1.5 ...

by Stephen Lendman Global economic data signal trouble. Headlines reflect worsening conditions. The Financial Times said America's dismal jobs report and world economic weakness raise "fears of a sharp global slowdown" or worse. According to the London Guardian, Britain and Euroland ...

By Stephen Lendman First the good news. On May 24, Haaretz headlined "Turkey issues arrest warrants for ex-IDF officers," saying: Four former senior IDF officers were named. They include Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi, military intelligence head Amos Yadlin, naval commander Eliezer Marom, and ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

Tired of the Fraser Institute’s worn-out gimmick to fuel tax resentment? We’ve got the cure: A new video that shows the value of contributing taxes. Public health care, garbage pick up, safe food, clean water, public parks, emergency services, higher learning – the chance to live in great commun ...

The Saskatchewan Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is proud to present our commemorative 2013 calendar that documents the struggle for universal medical coverage in Saskatchewan and Canada. With original archival images, trace the battle for medicare from the creation of S ...

The Saskatchewan Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is proud to present our commemorative 2013 calendar that documents the struggle for universal medical coverage in Saskatchewan and Canada. With original archival images, trace the battle for medicare from the creation of S ...

This week, The Huffington Post features an infographic breaking down the details on the growth of income inequality in Canada between 1980 and 2009. Created by Ryerson University journalism student Jeff Fraser, the infographic draws on data from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. ...

An examination of income inequality in North America reveals that Mexico is the only part of the continent where the middle class has been gaining from growth, according to a new study by internationally respected economist Lars Osberg, Dalhousie University professor and CCPA Research Associate. ...

World Wide Hippies

Encore: Fred Eaglesmith & Lindsey Buckingham By Luke Z. Fenchel,ithaca.com – No one likes a pencil pusher, especially in pop music. Rockers aren’t expected to play well with others; and when they do it’s a bit of a letdown, like learning that the former front man for Poison is really g ...

Scott Walker retains governorship in Wisconsin recall race Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker retained his governorship Tuesday night, besting Democrat Tom Barrett in a race that was a referendum on Walker’s decision to take on public employee unions. Walker led Barrett, who was the governor&#821 ...

CoLab Radio / By Nancy Bloom - After publishing this piece, a charter school teacher was terminated by her school and escorted from the building — even though she had already resigned. I just quit my job as a teacher in an urban charter school. Even though I still don’t have another job an ...

By Michael Pollok,OED - Perhaps George Orwell was nearly correct in his novel “1984″; simply substitute his vision of English socialism with American corporatism and you have the current conundrum in the United States. Over the next few days, the 99% Working Group, pursuant to the 99 ...

FourWinds10

(NaturalNews) Hydraulic fracturing, also known as "fracking," for the purpose of extracting natural gas from the earth involves flooding it with millions of gallons of chemical-laden water, a practice that by all estimates is damaging the environment to some extent. But a US Energy Dep ...

MILLIONS of dead fish have been found floating on the Minjiang River in southeast China's Fujian Province and it has started to stink. A cleanup has begun and authorities are investigating the cause and trying to find out whether there is any danger to drinking water. Local farmers suspect t ...

(NaturalNews) Deniers of geo-engineering, or man-made weather manipulation, truly are the real conspiracy theorists, as climate "scientists" have once again openly admitted that they have the technology to alter weather at will. And a recent piece in Scientific American highlights a ne ...

Crisis Maven

The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...

The Euro was probably the most hyped-in currency the world may have ever known. That fact alone should have been reason for suspicion. In this article we contrast some of the eulogies heaped on the Euro back in around 2001/2002 when it was introduced as a tangible currency with these past weeks& ...

As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...

As you may have noticed, CrisisMaven recently dabbled in speculative thought about the role of a universe-wide encyclopedia cum news service. The reason this came about was that recently at the Large Hadron Collider around Geneva/Switzerland and crossing under the French border a team of scienti ...

Or: Space and the Universe are a Palimpsest . Most recently Israeli archaeologists unearthed a crusader’s inscription believed to be around 800 years old and, which is why it makes headlines, written in Arabic. For those who have followed archaelogical progress over several decades (and re ...

Capital Flow Analysis

In the working paper “The Buyback Monitor - July 2009: Corporate Stock Buyback Profits of 273 Firms from 2000 into 2009“, published on the Social Sciences Research Network, M.A. Gumport, CFA, provides further evidence that stock buybacks are not as good for investors as often touted ...

The trillion-dollar Obama health care plan increases the odds that US economic recover will be delayed, and that unemployment and inflation will increase. The main thrust of the Obama plan is to increase taxes on individuals earning more than $250,000 a year, while forcing all but the tiniest ...

In a lead op-ed editorial in the Wall Street Journal on July 21, 2009, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke revealed the Fed’s exit strategy with regards to the inflationary effects of the Obama “spending is stimulus” packages and other government measure to contain the curren ...

No one knows for sure the real earnings of American corporations. In Q1 2009, according to the Federal Reserve flow of funds table F.102, after-tax profits of US non-financial, non-farm corporations, on an annual basis, were about $589.9 billion. However, about 50% of these after-tax earnings ...

R-Squared Energy Blog

In last week’s post — If We Only Had a Stable Energy Policy — I mentioned three specific examples of legislation under consideration that create uncertainties within U.S. energy policy. These uncertainties increase the financial risks for those trying to develop energy projects ...

House Ag Committee Holds Hearings on Energy On May 18, 2012 the House Committee on Agriculture held hearings on retaining Energy Title funding in the 2012 Farm Bill. Written testimonies and the video of the hearing are available at Formulation of the 2012 Farm Bill: Energy and Forestry Programs. ...

In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer the following questions: What are the chances that electric vehicles will be more than a boutique item, and will make up a noticeable portion of cars on the road by 2020? Do you agree with the recent report from the Natural Resources ...

I often hear the comment — “If we only had an energy policy” — but what does that really mean? In this column I will provide three examples — originating with both Democrats and Republicans and impacting both renewable energy and fossil fuels — of how constant ...

I often hear the comment — “If we only had an energy policy” — but what does that really mean? In this column I will provide three examples — originating with both Democrats and Republicans and impacting both renewable energy and fossil fuels — of how constant ...

Comments:History Happens is a collection of music videos about characters from American history. Our goal is to inform and inspire young people that an individual can make a difference--as evidenced by the many acts of courage, endurance and passion that make up the American story. These music v ...

Rodale News

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) can no longer dance around the serious issue of antibiotic overuse in farm animals, a federal court judge ruled on Tuesday night. In a case filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Center for Science in the Public Interest, Food Animal Concer ...

Last week, McDonald's announced a timeline to eliminate the use of gestation-crate confinement for pregnant pigs that produce pork for McDonald's restaurants. Gestation crates are metal confinement crates that hold breeding sows (female pigs) for much of their lives before they're sent to the s ...

This is an age where, love it or hate it, we are connected. Facebook, smartphones, and WiFi are just a few of the things that keep us linked in to the world around us. And if you think your breasts are just humbly sitting atop your chest, waiting to either nurture a child or attract your mate, ...

Everyone enjoys a dinner made from freshly harvested backyard-garden ingredients, and that includes your four-legged family members. Why should they be relegated to a diet that comes entirely from a bag or a can? Catnip, fresh vegetables, and even grass make great additions to your pets' diets ...

Shrimp is the most popular seafood in the United States, but here's an unsettling fact that might keep you from ordering your next shrimp cocktail: 90 percent of the shrimp we eat has been imported, but less than 2 percent of that gets inspected by U.S. regulatory agencies. What's the big deal? ...

big think

When you look at the best healthcare systems in the world -- that is, the ones that provide the best care and are the most efficient -- you will find a high number of primary care doctors. The United States, on the other hand, is the land of the specialists, and sub-specialists. Not onl ...

I’m so frustrated. What’s wrong? I know I should vote in November, but I’m totally over Obama, and Romney is kind of a tool. I don’t know what to do. So, vote for someone else. But that would be like throwing my vote away. Isn’t there anyone else you would ...

What's the Latest Development? Some scientists are beginning to believe that quantum mechanics determine macroscopic biological functions such as bird migration and our sense of smell. "Mounting evidence now suggests birds may be relying on quantum entanglement—the strange ability of par ...

After graduating college with a focus in Soviet History, I wanted to travel Ukraine—the former Soviet country my parents’ families escaped through the hell of the Eastern Front of World War II. But none of my friends wanted to go with me. One tried to convince me to instead go surfing with him i ...

By the time French police arrested him in 1969, Frank Abagnale had posed as a lawyer, doctor, U.S. Bureau of Prisons agent, teaching assistant at Brigham Young University, pilot and, “passed $2.5 million worth of meticulously forged checks across 26 countries.” By any standard, Abagnale - who .. ...

There's an old saying, "no one's liberties are safe while congress is in session." I would like to propose another: No one's dogs are safe while police are on patrol. Via KVUE: FLORENCE, Texas -- The Vybiral family are dog lovers; considering...

Police detained and handcuffed forty innocent bystanders after a bank robbery in Aurora, Colorado, on June 4. Nearly two dozen cars were stopped near a Wells Fargo Bank and the occupants held without probable cause as police searched for a suspect. ...

Once again, the United States Supreme Court has proven Clarence Darrow, a civil liberties attorney and long-time advocate for the Constitution, correct in his assertion that *there is no such thing as justice*in or out of court.* In meting out this p...

There is this idea in our society that has been bred into us through the media, government schools and culture, where law must line up perfectly with traditions and social convention. If something is frowned upon or taboo, you can rest assured that ...

Be Responsible - Be Free!

Something else that popped up in the news today, which I thought you might at least get a laugh out of. Meet Jeff Barth, county commissioner for Minnehaha in South Dakota, who is running this year for Congress. A straight-forward … Continue reading →

I’m leaving Libertarianism aside today, to show you what I regard as the greatest YouTube clip I’ve ever seen. Astronaut Neil Armstrong, commander of the Apollo 11 mission and the first man to walk on the moon, testified before a … Continue reading →

Or that one. Or that one. That should get the punters in. Plus, I feel like a bit of light relief (pun most definitely intended). The scandal surrounding the man LibertyGibbert first visited back here and here, Labor MHR for Dobell … Continue reading →

I’m still hammering away on my next longer essay. Meantime, one recent article I noticed on the Mises Daily is something I’ve been meaning to ask you about. I haven’t read in full Murray N. Rothbard’s An Austrian Perspective on the … Continue reading →

I’m in the middle of writing a longer article on religion; but meantime, here’s an article from today’s Sydney Daily Telegraph that caught my eye, and which has serious implications for the administration of criminal justice in all countries whose … Continue reading →

Sciencebase - Breaking Science News

NHS Choices comments on a powerfully argued and controversial paper in the British Medical Journal that claims many people are being diagnosed and treated for mild health problems that left alone might never cause any harm. The magazine lists the common conditions that the authors claim are bein ...

Airport X-ray security body scanners are anything but risky business. Indeed, you will be exposed to the same dose of ionising radiation in just two minutes of your flight once you’re at high altitude. So, an 8-hour flight is equivalent to having 240 full-body scans. They reckon you’ ...

Pluto is not a planet…but what is a planet anyway? For those stuck in endless arguments down the pub about why Pluto was, but is no longer, a planet: Related Posts:The evolving, revolving of the Moon Still, lifeless, unchanging...how did the Moon get so boring? Here's what a few billion ye ...

Dark matter might be found in hornets’ nests and cans of worms but not necessarily in the real world of cosmology and science. I recently reported on the work of Christian Moni Bidin which reveals serious discrepancies in science’s claims for the existence of dark matter. Of course, ...

Lifesquare is offering users in Marin County, California, a simple way to embed their essential health information, blood group, GP’s name and address, next of kin, medications, allergies, pre-existing conditions, etc into a QR code that emergency responders could scan at the scene of an i ...

Public Accountability Initiative http://public-accountability.org/2012/05/ub-shale-play/ The University at Buffalo’s Shale Resources and Society Institute (SRSI) released a report last week that concluded that the practice of horizontal hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” is becoming less risky ...

Environment America / by John Cross http://bit.ly/JCJNpb [From Press Release] …If the cars and trucks on the road today met the proposed 54.5 mpg standard, it would slash the country’s oil dependence by 16.6 billion gallons and cut our global warming pollution by more than 146 million met ...

US Congressional Research Service http://opencrs.com/document/R41914/ Given the central role of electric power in the nation’s economy, and the importance of coal in power production, concerns have been raised recently about the cost and potential impact of regulations under development at the E ...

Scientific American - News

Infidelity is easy to explain in males. By sleeping around, a guy can potentially impregnate more females and sire more offspring than if he just had one mate. But females cheat, too, even though a woman will only be able to have roughly one baby per year no matter how many male sex partners she ...

Déjà vu--that uncanny feeling of having experienced a situation before--has eluded explanation for centuries. Now the first study to use virtual reality to model the phenomenon in the laboratory is helping demystify the spooky illusion, revealing that the layout of a scene can trig ...

First Truths

Interesting passage from Samuel Clark's Living Without Domination: The Possibility of an Anarchist Utopia. I would wonder what the anarchists I know think of the various lists referenced here: This account of anarchism as a permanent human tendency has been attacked by a number of authors. ...

From Simon Clark's Keynesianism, Monetarism, and the Crisis of the State: However this structural crisis was not the result of the changing functional requirements of changes in the labour process, but of the tendency for capital accumulation to take the form of the overaccumulation and uneven d ...

Interesting and thought-provoking passage from Samuel Hollander's Economics and Ideology: Aspects of the Post-Ricardian Literature (1979): It was Marx's position, as we have mentioned, that while the labor writers of the 1820s drew upon Ricardo's value theory to reach their conclusion regarding ...

From Anthony Ince's Whither Anarchist Geography?:It has been said that anarchism combines a socialist critique of liberalism and a liberal critique of socialism. Its refusal to focus merely on "economics" or "freedom" or "culture," and so on, means that anarchism is inherently multifaceted and a ...

I enjoyed this passage from Stephen Colbert's I Am America (And So Can You!): AtheistsThese No-goodnik no-Godniks are growing in numbers and power in America. It makes me wonder how a God could exist Who'd allow people to piss me off so much.Luckily, a recent survey published in the American Soc ...

Media Co-Op

A conversation with Mi’kmaq educator and human rights defender Patricia Doyle-Bedwell Patricia Doyle-Bedwell is a Mi’kmaq woman originally from Bangor, Maine. She is currently the director and an assistant professor for the Transition ...

A new zine on community struggles against toxic mining Download a PDF of Solidarity and Resistance. Anti-mining struggles in occupied British Columbia are heating up. The Premier says she is going see to it that there are at least eigh ...

Grassy Narrows to hold River Run protest in Toronto On June 5th, a group of six First Nations youth completed an over 19,000 km walk from Grassy Narrows to downtown Toronto. They undertook the 38 day journey to raise awareness of mercury po ...

Land defenders from BC to Chile spotlighted at weekend mining conference A conference in Vancouver over the weekend brought together people in struggle against large scale, toxic mining projects throughout the hemisphere. During ...

May, Over Easy Goodbye Graham The retirement of Nova Scotia’s Finance Minister, Graham Steele, was unexpected — but welcome. The pressures of working in the political world easily justify the personal reasons Steele offered for ...

David Seaton's News Links

David Seaton's News Links Why vote for Obama? Why indeed. Cutting to the chase: it is important that, barring incompetence passing that of his twice-elected predecessor, which is certainly not his case, the first African-American president in the history of the United States should not be d ...

David Seaton's News Links Mr. Obama concluded in his first year that the Bush-era dream of remaking Afghanistan was a fantasy, and that the far greater threat to the United States was an unstable, nuclear-armed Pakistan. So he narrowed the goals in Afghanistan, and narrowed them again, until he ...

Obama must be doing something right David Seaton's News Links Look, American politics is like Woody Allen’s restaurant, you know the one with, “such bad food and such small portions”. The best you can realistically hope for as President of the United States is a kinder, gentler, mafia don. That ...

The Child is Father to the Man"To this day it troubles me. What a senseless, stupid, idiotic thing to do." -- Thomas Buford, who witnessed a Romney-led attack on a gay teenager "It was vicious." -- Philip Maxwell, another witness "It was horrible. It's something I have thought about a l ...

David Seaton's News LinksOnward and Upward I think almost all of us, progressive and otherwise, are conscious that we live in a strange and special era. "The best of times and the worst of times"... yada yada; not "evil" like the 1930s, but strange, dysfunctional, unstable, unpredictable and of ...

MoJo - Kevin Drum

Ross Douthat puts last night's results in Wisconsin in a broader context: To understand the broader trends at work, a useful place to turn is Jay Cost’s essay on “The Politics of Loss” in the latest issue of National Affairs. For most of the post-World War II era, Cost arg ...

Hey, guess what? I got a picture of the transit of Venus after all. Isn't that exciting? The unretouched photo below was the very last one I took before the middle of the sun dipped below the horizon, and that tiny little smudge is Venus. I figured everyone would want to know.

This paragraph from Martin Wolf has been much quoted over the past day: Before now, I had never really understood how the 1930s could happen. Now I do. All one needs are fragile economies, a rigid monetary regime, intense debate over what must be done, widespread belief that suffering is go ...

The chart below shows the effect of the Great Recession on high school grads entering the workforce. Back in 2006-08, about 60% found work of some kind right after graduating. Since 2009, only about 40% have found work. This is a staggering waste of human potential, and almost certainly a life ...

Ezra Klein looks at labor's loss in Wisconsin last night and sounds their death knell: For a long time, a lot of the energy has been devoted to the question of "how do you revive the labor movement?" The truth is, at this point, you probably can't. You can slow decline. And you can score is ...

Topics: Stitcher Radio The Reason GI Joe 2 got pushed back a year Snow White and the Huntsman IS a Trap The Zombie Apocalypse is upon us Florida is Ground Zero Getting the ‘Celebrity’ treatment sucks What are the rules to slander online? Justin Bieber trains with Mike Tyson Random ch ...

Topics: Kev moves to the “white” part of his neighborhood Kev gets blocked by Holly Robinson Peete MMA isn’t as violent as people think Twitter is a warzone with no Geneva Convention Putting yourself out there is risky Opportunistic Feminism Slander happens both ways Twitter is ...

Considering how far species disperse before their first mating and the time between generations, Carrie Schloss and colleagues from the University of Washington show that one tenth of mammals in North and South America may not be able to keep pace with conditions they're adapted to as the world ...

Considering how far species disperse before their first mating and the time between generations, Carrie Schloss and colleagues from the University of Washington show that one tenth of mammals in North and South America may not be able to keep pace with conditions they're adapted to as the world ...

There are problems with our use of growth in the common economic measure GDP to assess progress, says the University of Michigan's Edward Ionides, after he and his colleagues found atmospheric CO2 levels and GDP are closely connected.

e!Science News

Wastewater from large dairy farms contains significant concentrations of estrogenic hormones that can persist for months or even years, researchers report in a new study. In the absence of oxygen, the estrogens rapidly convert from one form to another; this stalls their biodegradation and compli ...

Researchers from the University of Bonn have just shown how a single atom can be split into its two halves, pulled apart and put back together again. While the word "atom" literally means "indivisible," the laws of quantum mechanics allow dividing atoms -- similarly to light ...

Researchers at the Center for Nanophysics and Advanced Materials of the University of Maryland have developed a new type of hot electron bolometer a sensitive detector of infrared light, that can be used in a huge range of applications from detection of chemical and biochemical weapons from a di ...

Brave New Climate

Guest Post by Tom Blees. Tom Blees is the author of Prescription for the Planet – The Painless Remedy for Our Energy & Environmental Crises. Tom is also the president of the Science Council for Global Initiatives and a board member of the UN-affiliated World Energy Forum [wef21.org]. M ...

Presented as part of World Environment Day 2012, Environment Institute members Professors Barry Brook and Corey Bradshaw (along with Ben Heard of DecarboniseSA.com and Geoff Russell [regular BNC commenter]) are taking part in an event on nuclear power and environmentalism, held by the Town of Wa ...

Guest Post by Martin Nicholson. Martin studied mathematics, engineering and electrical sciences at Cambridge University in the UK and graduated with a Masters degree in 1974. He has spent most of his working life as business owner and chief executive of a number of information technology compani ...

Guest Post by Martin Nicholson. Martin studied mathematics, engineering and electrical sciences at Cambridge University in the UK and graduated with a Masters degree in 1974. He has spent most of his working life as business owner and chief executive of a number of information technology compani ...

Below is an article I wrote for the South Australian Mines and Energy Journal on carbon emissions of uranium mines. (This, and others in the SACOME series, have also been published by my co-author, Ben Heard, on DecarboniseSA.com). This is a new version of a blog post I published on BNC a few ye ...

Indigenist Opinion

.:Middle East Online::The State of Journalism and Media in the New Libya:.: Journalism and media witnessed huge expansion in Libya since the first spark in the February 17 revolution. There are now around 200 printed newspapers in Tripoli and Benghazi alone, and around 18 satellite channels thro ...

GUEST POST by @jazminchavez and @juliagrob: “Latinos: Turn Off Your TV, Co�o!”: GUEST POST BY Jazmin Chavez & Julia Ahumada Grob of "East WillyB" By the time of this publication, we should all be familiar with the recent controversy regarding ABC sitcom, “Work It,” in which Puerto Rican act ...

China must abandon censorship | APNS Article 35 of China's constitution as adopted in 1982 clearly states that: "Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration." For 28 years this article has stood ...

The Billanthrope: Why I Wrote Koontown: Black people are inherently inferior. This is not something you would often hear anybody say outright—if at all. That would be racist, and we live in a time when even devout racists get offended if you actually call them “racist.” The closest we tend to ge ...

Republicans are a Disease

When I roll, I always have one of our RepublicansAreADisease.com sighs taped on the rear window of my car. I went to Office Depot to return some supplies yesterday and what appeared to be a Republican with his wife and teen age daughter were walking up to the car next to me. The Republican saw [...]

On Meet the Press Michele Bachman claims Republicans want women to make their own health care choices. Really? I guess unless their employer disagrees right Michele? Please media. The story is the fact that the Michele Bachman types get to lie repeatedly, and never have to pay a price. Time to d ...

Dear Wolf. You are an asshole. Why should anyone apologize for telling the truth? I know that you think that Marie Antoinette Romney is an “elite” and we are supposed to worship her while she tell us “poor people” how we should live our lives, and what matters to us? Hill ...

Dear Marie Antoinette Romney. Please sit down and shut up about economics. It is wonderful that your “family” has been so prosperous that you have never had to work for wages once in your whole life, unlike almost every other woman in America. What you don’t seem to understand ...

Come on Newt, who do you owe? You have millions upon millions in loot, and you can’t pay the people that you have contracts with and did business with? You have yours and you are screwing them out of theirs? You are sick man. I know you wanted to be prezzident so you could screw us [...]

Hands Across Riverdale. – Today, June 1st, the residents of Riverdale Mobile Home Park are facing the threat of eviction by Aqua America. This corporation hopes to put in a water withdraw site for natural gas drilling where there … Continue reading →

Kentucky Rising: Occupy the Capitol at the State Capitol Building, Frankfort, KY Let your voice be heard. Demand the end of corporate domination of our politics. Help build a new participatory politics for our Commonwealth. We will convene a People’s … Continue reading →

May 23, 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE West Virginia Women Lead Protest at State Capital Sacrifice of Locks in Name of Appalachian Mountains COOL RIDGE, W.VA. – Fed up with government inaction, a group of outraged West Virginians will gather this … Continue reading →

Amped Status

By David DeGraw “You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” – Bob Dylan For those of us in the 99% Movement who started organizing Occupy in the spring of 2011, Flag Day June 14th marks the one-year anniversary since we first gathered in Zuccotti Park and 22 other loc ...

Renowned cellular biologist, Dr. Bruce Lipton narrates the process of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly over a milieu of imagery in "The Evolution of the Butterfly". The film combines first hand footage from the Occupy Wall Street movement with stylized portraits of the recent eco ...

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June 5, 2012 is the day Palestinians mark the anniversary of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza following the Six-Day War in 1967. Tuesday’s protest in Hebron marked 45 years of military occupation and 18 years since the closure of Shuhada Street, the main thoroughfare of Heb ...

Recent searches into the email accounts of passengers arriving in Israel raises the question of how far the State can go in its airport security checks. It is one thing to search files located on a person’s computer , but quite another to go through a person’s cyberspace history. By ...

The right-wing organization “Regavim” wants you to overlook why the Palestinians in Area C are pushed into building “illegally”; Regavim wants you to ignore the fundamental inequality of status between Palestinians and settlers. By Yariv Mohar The first High Court hearing ...

Updated: The Knesset on Wednesday voted down a bill called the “Settlement Arrangement Law,” a motion tailored to legalize settlement areas and outposts in the West Bank facing legal challenges from Palestinians who claim to own the land privately. The vote failed (69 against, 22 in ...

Updated: The Knesset is set to vote Wednesday on a bill called the “Settlement Arrangement Law,” a motion tailored to legalize settlement areas and outposts in the West Bank facing legal challenges from Palestinians who claim to own the land privately. The vote is expected to fail de ...

The Gillard Government is supporting Traditional Owners of the Great Barrier Reef to undertake projects such as sea country planning, seagrass monitoring, and teaching young people marine science skills.

Matt Weidner Blog

Here’s what Integrity Florida (haha everytime I read that I gotta giggle. Right?) has to say about Florida: Florida led the U.S. in federal public corruption convictions from 2000 – 2010i, according to U.S. Department of Justice data. Corruption was a top ten factor Forbes magazineii ...

AND NO SURRENDER TO THE FORCES OF FASCISM THAT HAVE INVADED THIS COUNTRY! June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade ...

Jay Weidner, one of the big thinkers of the time… I like what he’s got to say….here’s what he’s got to say…. Ron Paul will win in the end. That’s right. It doesn’t matter anymore how the criminals in charge try to change the vote, or how they conjure lies and ...

As foreclosures skyrocketed across the country in the wake of the financial crisis, banks routinely filed flawed and fraudulent legal documents in a rush to keep up with the wave of defaults. But officials at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency largely missed the fact that the mortgage ...

Vaccine Awakening

by Barbara Loe Fisher Every mother has had the nightmare. We dream our child, who we love more than we thought we could love anyone, has been taken away by strangers and cannot be found. The cold fear rises up from our stomach into our throats as we search, endlessly, to find the child we would ...

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln by Barbara Loe Fisher In America today, there is an unprecedented assault on the human right to exercise informed consent to medical risk-taking ...

by Barbara Loe Fisher Today, pediatricians give American babies as many as 33 doses of 13 different vaccines by 12 months of age.1, 2 Now, federal public health officials are considering recommending that doctors give four more doses of a new vaccine – meningococcal vaccine – to babies between ...

by Barbara Loe Fisher My country, ’tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing: Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims’ pride, From every mountain side, Let freedom ring.[1] What is liberty? Webster’s Dictionary defines Liberty as “the quality or state of being free,” ...

by Barbara Loe Fisher Memorial Day is for remembering those, who have fought and died to defend America and preserve our civil liberties, including freedom of thought, speech, religious belief and conscience. So every Memorial Day I remember the children, who have died after receiving state man ...

2020 Science

It’s that time of year again – 2000+ of the worlds top movers and shakers are beginning to descend on the Swiss ski town of Davos for this year’s Annual World Economic Forum meeting. Political heavyweights like Clinton, Annan, Sarkozy and Cameron will be intermingling with the ...

Technology innovation was front and center of Obama’s State of the Union speech tonight. This is extremely good news for those of us who believe more needs to be done, and done better, to ensure science and technology translate into effective solutions that enable economic and social grow ...

Cross-posted at ForumBlog.org – the World Economic Forum blog My high school physics teacher used to tell me there’s no such think as a dumb question. It’s a lesson I’ve carried with me through my professional career as a scientist. But it’s a philosophy that might be just about to come ...

I don’t usually write about personal interactions here, but this is one I couldn’t resist – physics superstar Lawrence Krauss talking cosmology with music superstar Peter Gabriel. I was with Lawrence at a World Economic Forum dinner when he bumped into Peter – as one does ...

Cross-posted from the Risk Science Blog. Take a metaphorical slice through this year’s annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, and Global Risk would be writ large through every part of it. Hot on the heels of the sixth Global Risk report, this year’s meeting saw the launch of ...

Reader Supported News

Asan Bibi, 9, sits on a bench as burn cream is applied to her at Mirwais Hospital, Kandahar, Afghanistan. She, her sister and mother were badly burned when a US helicopter fired into their tent in the middle of the night, 10/13/09. (photo: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) Reader Supported ...

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates attends graduation ceremonies at West Point, 05/23/09. (photo: Spencer Platt/Getty) Reader Supported News Perspective n July 15, 2010, Time Magazine carried an article entitled, "An Attack on Iran: Back on the Table." According to the piece, the point ...

Rachel Maddow on assignment in Afghanistan, 07/05/10. (photo: Rachel Maddow Show/MSNBC) Reader Supported News Perspective very June, I leave my Northern California home and head south to our annual Gulf Coast family reunion. I might as well be an alien visiting from another planet. My ...

Future Supreme Court Justice John G. Roberts meets with George W. Bush in the Oval Office, 06/15/05. (photo: Eric Draper) Reader Supported News Perspective The corporate financial steamroller is heading into the election arena much faster than many folks thought possible. I was one of ...

War Resisters League

Originally published on May 2nd, 2012 on Jadaliyya. by Ali Issa Iraqi unions demonstrated yesterday on May Day 2012 at a difficult historical moment. Still operating without a labor law that sanctions their organizing, and under the consolidation of Prime … Continue reading →

To mark the upcoming NATO summit to be held in May 2012 in Chicago and the simultaneous G8 summit to be held in Camp David, Maryland, War Resisters League and the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance release a new popular education … Continue reading →

by Matt Meyer [This article was originally published on 'New Clear Vision' on February 15th, 2012.] On the Nature of Violence and Nonviolence Amidst a bombardment of Black Bloc commentary, questions about the militarized nature of tear-gas toting police, and … Continue reading →

[The WRL blog is excited to feature a film review by Jeanne Strole, co-director of the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute, with which the War Resisters League shares a long history, as well as the building at 339 Lafayette St. in … Continue reading →

Center for a Livable Future

Every fraction of a second, a robotic arm presented one of the inspectors with the viscera (guts) of a chicken carcass. The inspectors handled the viscera and took a quick glance at each carcass, checking for tumors, fecal contamination and other obvious signs that the carcass might pose a food ...

This isn’t the first time that the IOM or another official body has called attention to these links, but it is the first time that such an urgency has been placed on the call to better understand and address the connections.

The Meatless Monday campaign here in the U.S. has grown leaps and bounds over the past few years (the recent blogpost on Sodexo’s success with the campaign is just one example), but did you know that 23 countries now have campaigns that seek to reduce meat consumption one day a week? When I was ...

"Global warming" like "excess population" is merely a fashionable deity of the "God of the Greater Good" which will be worshipped for as long as it serves as a convenient label to suspend rational thought and justify the unjustifiable.

Consumerist

If you think Starbucks' penetration into the world of coffee-selling is already at the saturation point, the company would kindly like to disagree with you. It has announced a deal with Coinstar to roll out thousands of automated kiosks that would sell $1 cups of Starbucks' Seattle's Best bran ...

With many Americans still weighed down by debt, there seem to be an endless number of firms out there offering to help save people from the quicksand. Alas, not all of these people are completely on the up-and-up. The Federal Trade Commission is trying to crack down on debt relief services tha ...

Even if Starbucks' Ireland Twitter account only has 2,000 followers, it probably should've thought a bit harder before asking those followers how it feels to be British. You know, since Ireland's a free and independent republic that is most definitely not part of the United Kingdom anymore. T ...

No one likes when their brand-new electronics purchase goes on the fritz almost immediately after they buy it. Luckily, there are usually manufacturers' warranties to cover when this happens. But what about when that replacement device also craps out? In April 20111, Consumerist reader Mike pu ...

AC used to shop at Gamestop a lot, but has vowed not to go back. Why? Somehow, the odds caught up with him and he has ended up with three defective Nintendo DSes in a row, all purchased from the same store. Return a defective one, get another. Return a defective one, get another. Not wanting to ...

Whistleblogger - GAP

Schools in National Lunch Program Reject Pink Slime Summary: The USDA announced that the majority of states in the National School Lunch Program have opted to purchase ground beef without the filler commonly referred to as "pink slime." GAP's Food Integrity Campaign points out that the th ...

U.S. officials tell us that a drone strike has killed al Qaeda's #2 operative - Abu Yahya al-Libi: One American official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, described Mr. Libi as one of Al Qaeda’s “most experienced and versatile leaders,” and said he had “played a critical role in the ...

Last Saturday, June 2, former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the deaths of innocent protestors during the popular uprising that ended his decades-long regime. Mubarak was found to be an accessory to murder for failing to prevent the killing of th ...

Rolls-Royce builds more than just swanky cars, but according to whistleblowers, other products aren't nearly as stellar. Aside from being the go-to car of the wealthy, Rolls-Royce also builds airplane engines for the US Department of Defense (DoD). According to two former quality-control office ...

Law360: Rise in Whistleblower Protections Inspires New Firm Practices Summary: Thanks to increased whistleblower protections, more law firms are improving their practices to litigate whistleblower cases. Recently, several firms have announced whistleblower practices in response to new pro ...

UK Progressive

Rollerball is a classic 1975 film (MGM) leaps ahead to a future world (like NOW) with amazing accuracy. The story foretells an age of violent physical contact sports, stars and celebrities dominating society with enormous numbers of wildly involved fans. Competition rules all life and Jonathan ( ...

The White House must be telling itself there are still five months between now and Election Day, so the jobs picture could brighten. After all, we went through a similar mid-year slump in 2011 but came out fine. But however you look at today’s jobs report, it’s a stunning reminder of how anemic ...

How the ex-Louisiana Governor channeled his political and personal demons into a rabble-rousing presidential campaign. Update, 5/31/12: Buddy Roemer announced the suspension of his presidential campaign, noting that “the lack of ballot access in all 50 states makes the quest impossible for now.” ...

by Cora Currier, ProPublica Everyone is talking about drones. Also known as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, or UAVs, remote-piloted aircrafts have become a controversial centerpiece of the Obama administration’s counter-terrorism strategy. Domestically, their surveillance power is being hyped fo ...

This business of moving from place to place every night is totally new to me. I was in my last home for six years, nine for the one before it and seven in a previous residence. y the standards of people who truly do live rough – sleeping in shelters, at bus stops and in [...]

NewsAlert

The Chicago Tribune reports:The debate in Wisconsin was about ideas. You might agree or disagree, but it was a wonderful battle of ideas. There are no ideas in Illinois. A state run by political bosses isn't about ideas. What matters here is who gets what, as decided by Illinois House Speaker Mi ...

JoNova

Global Carbon Market trading climbed to $176 billion in 2011 according to the The World Bank, which has just released it’s annual State and Trends of The Carbon Market in 2012. That makes it about the same value as total global wheat production — which supplies about 20% of the calor ...

Excellent video. This man is good. The message is spot on. This is an edgy fast paced narrative about why we owe the most to some of the most unpopular people in history. It’s about free speech: why it matters, why we may lose it. About the threat that Finkelstein poses. “It’s ...

Paul Homewood follows the money to find Royal Society funding. (Figures are rounded) … Even if we acknowledge that most of the money goes straight to research, there is a slab of money that goes straight to the Society: So government funding (Parliamentary Grant in Aid) amounts to 67% of t ...

Reader Mike passed me a note that Canberra/ ACT residents may be interested in. The Climate Sceptics party has changed its name to the No Carbon Tax Climate Sceptics and is working to establish a branch for the ACT elections. The party needs another 70 members by June 30th, so it can register in ...

The world is so poised on the edge. The jitters are sweeping through tonight. Just suppose you have $100m in assets that you are nervous about. You cannot stick that amount in a bank, because government guarantees only cover the first $1m or whatever, and banks are all risky now. So you buy into ...

ReNew America

(Washington Examiner) - Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker on Tuesday beat back a union-fueled effort to remove him from office, defeating Democrat Tom Barrett in a recall race many had considered a potential bellwether for November's presidential election...

(Yahoo News) - Mitt Romney has distanced himself from the health care reform bill he signed as governor of Massachusetts amid criticism that the law bears more than a passing resemblance to Obamacare, which he's repeatedly pledged to repeal if elected in November...

(Ricochet) - One of the few Republicans in the country who's been tirelessly pushing for the implementation of Obamacare at the state level has been tapped to head Mitt Romney's transition team, should he become president...

In the world of liberty lovers and food freedom fighters, there's been a ton of attention lately on Senate bill S.510 -- the deceitfully-named, "Food Safety Modernization Act [1]." But in the mainstream media, there's been but a whimper; a pathetic trickle of occasional, fleeting and understated ...

At TruthOffering.com, we've written much about what's known as the Liberty to Tyranny cycle. The reason we've focused so much attention on this cycle is that we believe in it completely. That is to say, since every civilization has followed this cycle's projection, it's reasonable to suspect the ...

John D. Rockefeller, Sr. / Wilhelm WundtSince reading "the deliberate dumbing down of america" by Charlotte Iserbyt, I've been trying to find other people out there who have also noticed the ruining of education in the United States. To be honest, it's hard to find information on this subject ou ...

Have a listen to Matt Gordon from TruthOffering.com chatting with Hip-hop connoisseur, D-Bracks, on LA Talk Live. Topics range from economics and politics to international banksters and chemtrails. Be sure to drop a comment and let us know what you think of Matt's perspective:

2012 Blog

For some time I have been convinced that some of the world’s largest pyramids were designed primarily to be bunkers. By starting with this premise, and asking questions about the Great Pyramid of Giza, I hope to demonstrate how (to me) it is a possibility: Why is it so big? I can think o ...

It seems that some ancient scholars were aware of eclipse / earthquake connections. First up is Aristotle. While his explanation is most likely wrong, I doubt he would have provided it without a known connection with eclipses: An earthquake sometimes coincides with an eclipse of the moon for t ...

I have to admit that I struggle with these – vague rock markings that magically become meaningful when someone draws over them in color to show you what they think they represent. So use your own judgement – but if they are right, this is pretty good proof that the Great Pyramid is m ...

Once upon a time, when I ventured up to the Orkney Islands of Scotland (there are excellent standing stones and burial mounds there), I stayed overnight in a typical Stromness house, and they have walls four feet thick, due to the rough weather up there. That was impressive – a wall that s ...

Due to the number of people asking, I’ve made the data regarding major earthquakes and lunar eclipses available online for anyone to check: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Avj6d6nLwrEbdEY4SU1Gb2hpUmNBTXphLVU1cDNQYUE The first tab has the data, the second describes where I so ...

Facing South

The campaign calling on companies to sever ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council is one of the most successful corporate accountability initiatives in history, but it now faces the challenge of persuading those unfazed by consumer unrest. read more

Democrats and election watchdogs say that Florida's aggressive purging of supposed non-citizens from its voter rolls is a nakedly partisan attempt to help Mitt Romney win the presidency. But the bigger problem for Gov. Rick Scott is that it likely violates federal laws. read more

One News Page

6 Jun 2012 Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh today unveiled new plans for international operations of strike-hit Air India. He told reporters that two new flights to Kualalumpur and London will be started and operations to Hong Kong, Osaka and Seoul will begin from first of August. Reported ...

6 Jun 2012 The Kerala High Court today dismissed anticipatory bail petitions of two CPI-M leaders in connection with the Mohammed Fasal murder case.Stating that the duo had a role in the conspiracy to do away with Fasal, the court dismissed their petitions. Reported by All India Radio 1 ho ...

6 Jun 2012 Indian duo of Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza has reached the finals of the French Open Mixed Doubles tennis.In the semis played in Paris on Wednesday, they defeated the Kazak-Italian pair of Galina Voskoboeva and Danielle Bracialli 6-4, 6-2. Reported by All India Radio 2 ...

Oriental Review

In international politics, relations of trade and commerce among nations are known, but what about spiritual cooperation? This is in fact the central call of religious leaders at Astana in Kazakhstan. While speaking at the 4th Conference of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions, held on 30t ...

The current unrest in Balochistan centers around forced disappearances, kidnappings, targeted killings, assassinations and terrorism. However, these are merely the tactics of a much broader, more geopolitically complex war in which the United States and its Western allies are engaged. Though see ...

The clouds gather over the Middle East. Not so long ago the clashes between the Sunni Muslims, who support the Free Syrian Army, and the Alawites, who stand by the government of Syrian president Bashar Assad, took place in Tripoli, the second largest city of Lebanon. Fighting also took place in ...

Clinton finally brings the secret military/State Dept. covert operations out into the open (SEE: Clinton Goes Commando, Sells Diplomats as Shadow Warriors). This is the logical outcome of a process started long ago, during the Reagan Administration, when Congress put restrictions on the CIA’s sh ...

I am not saying any group is immune from committing war crimes or terrorism in times of war, and I am fully aware of the Syrian regime’s repressive tactics, but even the most horrific acts of violence are driven by a certain “logic” which strives to achieve concrete objectives. There has to be a ...

BlogHer

On Saturday, May 26, a man was brutalized in what has been described by several media organizations as a zombie attack. But unlike the usual plot in zombie films, the perpetrator was not a victim of an apocalyptic virus. According to Miami-Dade law enforcement, the 31-year-old man was under the ...

If I ask you what motherhood feels like, can you tell me? And I don't mean emotionally, in your heart or in your brain. I want to know what it feels like, physically. The touch, the movement, the feel of motherhood. Natalie at The Mama Track captured the feel so eloquently, so beautifully, that ...

Every year my parents tell me that they want to set up a little garden in their backyard. Every year they worry about the cost of getting started, and then the weeds take over. When my mom brought up the gardening topic yet again, I decided to search for ways that budding gardeners can save some ...

In keeping with our theme of learning how your blog works this week, here's a great post from Christine McCarthy that explains how to change permalinks in WordPress, 301 redirects, and more. Christine writes, Let’s learn from my mistake, shall we? A couple weeks ago, I changed the WordPress per ...

Gado-gado, staple Indonesian food with plethora of nutritional goods within, is fairly easy to make. Technically, the only things one needs to do are to steam or blanch some vegetables, pour in the peanut sauce, and it's done. For the time-challenged, the peanut sauce even often come in pre ...

Health Freedom Alliance

Seven easy fixes to help you eat better and achieve your nutrition goals YONKERS, N.Y., May 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Women find many excuses not to eat healthy and many feel bad about it, but according ...

Could it be that cancer rates are so rampant because people are simply not eating the right foods. While there are many factors that play into the development of cancer, diet and smoking habits make up nearly ...

Hollywood superstar Suzanne Somers has played many roles in her long career: television actress, fitness-product pitchwoman, and best-selling author. But with her new book, Somers has become something else entirely: a medical pioneer. In “Bombshell: Explosive ...

Recently, the Senate has taken up an issue that may actually benefit the general public – this time specifically, it’s regarding the mass medication that is omnipresent in everyone’s water supply, sodium fluoride. The largest ...

Contrary to many anti-aging pills and creams, avocados are extremely inexpensive and also quite a delicious addition to any seasonal meal. The best part, however, is that they are actually effective in fighting both again ...

Live News Wire

Those who criticized the reaction of the crowd at Wednesday night's memorial have it ingrained that a perfect memorial is one with candles, flowers and tears. The citizens of Tucson and the American people have mourned for five days. Wednesday's event was not a time to mourn some more. It was a ...

The Tucson, Arizona family home of 22-year-old Jared Loughner had been visited by authorities before the shooting of a congresswoman and 18 others last Saturday, new information by the New York Times revealed Wednesday. It's unclear what the visits were about or what prompted the call to author ...

At least fifteen gunshots rang out shortly after 10:10am Arizona Time Saturday, bullets fatally striking a Federal Judge and injuring a prominent Congresswoman. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) of Arizona's Eighth District was wounded at a public meet-and-greet event outside a grocery s ...

The worst floods in 50 years to hit Queensland, Australia are being described as nothing short of Biblical. More than 1,000 people have been evacuated, though officials say as the floodwaters get worse, as many as 4,000 residents could be asked to vacate their homes and businesses later this we ...

Coal Tattoo

Photo from iLoveMountains via House report. I think often about the incredible irony that Don Blankenship named his political action group, “And for the Sake of the Kids.” How about “for the sake of” the orphans of the many terrible mining deaths caused by production-ov ...

Here’s the latest from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Information Administration: Amid historically low natural gas prices and the warmest March ever recorded in much of the United States, coal’s share of total net generation dropped to 34%—the lowest level since at lea ...

Sometimes it’s hard to stomach the will to pay much attention to the energy-related politics in West Virginia, as devoid of facts and reason as those discussions tend to be — with the “war on coal” message being pumped out by the industry, its political friends and so muc ...

Daniel Miessler

You don’t read, say, Steinbeck or Vonnegut, to ‘remember what’s in them.’ (Furthermore, things like ‘active recall’ aren’t going to help you out.) Authors you have made it to the upper echelons of literature are the ones who develop distinct voices and t ...

A great feature of Game of Thrones is that it teaches us about reality while it entertains. One example is illustrating how so few people are purely good or evil. Even those we consider purely good or evil are actually, under a keen eye, mixtures of many things. Two people who embody this are Th ...

Forgive me for noting that conservatives seem to believe that the rich will work harder if we give them more, and the poor will work harder if we give them less. via washingtonpost.com Posted via email from danielmiessler.com | posterous Related ContentTo truly become rich, you need to stop ...

Security experts at CSIS say that they have discovered the smallest online banking trojan yet. Called Tiny Banker (Tinba), the malware is just barely 20KB in size, including its configuration files. Like Zeus, Tinba uses man-in-the-browser techniques and easily extendable configuration files to ...

The password must be exactly 8 characters long. It must contain at least one letter, one number, and one special character. The only special characters allowed are: @ # $ A special character must not be located in the first or last position. Two of the same characters sitting next to each other ...

Fitwatch

The high court has decided that it is perfectly ok for the cops to gather as much intel about anyone they like who is in any way connected to the Smash EDO campaign - or any other that uses direct action or civil disobedience. Yesterday they announced that the domestic extremism unit, in holding ...

As avid readers of the comments pages of this blog and indymedia will know, two of the plain clothes cops who terrorised and dragged people out of the N9 student demo have now been identified. The comments that were posted are re-posted in full below. PC Chris Healey and PC Giles Dainty, both wo ...

FIT team and the new 'baby blue' Police Liasion cops were much in evidence on the Mayday march in London. We've also had reports of a PCSO in a FIT role - first time we've come across that! Some reports have suggested that the FIT were in evidence partly because the cops seem fixated on [...]

We at FITwatch have been a bit quiet recently – but we are leaping back into life with an open meeting on Sunday 25th March, 1pm at the London Action Resource Centre. With the Met trying to criminalise face masks, implementing new data gathering systems, and making an issue of ‘robust’ policing, ...

Worldwide Hippies

By Ars Moriendi,WorldWide Hippies–I am sure at this point everyone has heard the news of the Indiana Church that cheered a preschooler on as he sang a homophobic song. I am not one to sensationalize a story that is already as shocking as this one, but I did put in a call to the church. Lit ...

Encore: Fred Eaglesmith & Lindsey Buckingham By Luke Z. Fenchel,ithaca.com – No one likes a pencil pusher, especially in pop music. Rockers aren’t expected to play well with others; and when they do it’s a bit of a letdown, like learning that the former front man for Poison is really g ...

Scott Walker retains governorship in Wisconsin recall race Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker retained his governorship Tuesday night, besting Democrat Tom Barrett in a race that was a referendum on Walker’s decision to take on public employee unions. Walker led Barrett, who was the governor&#821 ...

CoLab Radio / By Nancy Bloom - After publishing this piece, a charter school teacher was terminated by her school and escorted from the building — even though she had already resigned. I just quit my job as a teacher in an urban charter school. Even though I still don’t have another job an ...

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While Adam Smith is turning in his grave A vast majority of the staunch advocates of the climate panic are left-wing people and left-wing institutions. But I was just amazed by a fresh Forbes article called iPads on a Plane and Why a Carbon Tax Would Solve Global Warmingby Tim Worstall ...

You may find many copies of the following sentence on TRF but here we go again: The most interesting hep-ph preprint on the arXiv today is the first one: Supersymmetry in the shadow of photini The authors are Masha Baryakhtar, Nathaniel Craig, Ken Van Tilburg – three very young but self-e ...

Sean Carroll has ignited another Cosmic Variance discussion on the legitimacy and predictivity of multiverse theories, Does This Ontological Commitment Make Me Look Fat? About one-half of the points that people make in that thread are right (and some of the people, such as Moshe Rozali, a ...

Willie S. has told me about an interesting article (more precisely, a not so interesting article written by an interesting author, more precisely by a highly notorious author) that mentions your humble correspondent, among others. Initially, I didn't want to believe that Willie rea ...

... and 6,000 kids like Alan Alda ... I was greatly impressed (scientifically, visually, musically, and otherwise) by this 7.5-minute video by Ben Ames, a 31-year-old Missouri-born grad student in Innsbruck, Austria where he does quantum optics: It explains what a flame is (I ...

Tatumba 2.0

The new film “End Of The Road” has just been released for public viewing, featuring GoldSilver.com CEO Mike Maloney alongside Peter Schiff, Jim Rickards, Jim Puplava, James Turk, Eric Sprott and more. This post is courtesy of Robbie the Robot Gold American Eagle Fractional Bullion Co ...

HELP MAKE THIS GO VIRAL! How To Defeat The System is Fabian4Liberty’s latest micro documentary film. With the world in crisis and hundreds of talking heads highlighting the problems, what exactly are the solutions? In this micro documentary LIBERTARIAN ACTIVIST Fabian4Liberty covers concre ...

A few weeks ago I won a significant amount of money in the lottery. Now that the party is over it is time to move forward with the rest of my life. I have hummed and hawed for a few days now on how to spend some of this money and have decided to direct [...] Related posts: Crazy Man Praises Th ...

Enviroblog

By Nora Pouillon For those of us lucky enough to sit down every day to healthy, nutritious meals, it's easy to forget that millions of American families in the grip of the recession are struggling to put food on... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other co ...

DeSmog Blog published a piece last week about a new study linking in utero exposure to the notorious bisphenol-A to breast cancer. What's particularly concerning is the level of BPA in the monkey's blood was equivalent to average levels found... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my w ...

The agribusiness trade group Alliance For Food and Farming (AFF) recently asked us this question: "EWG - do you agree that both conventional and organic fruits and vegetables are safe to eat - yes or no?" Answer: Yes. But put... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full l ...

When I spoke with EWG senior analyst Nneka Leiba about this year's sunscreen database she had mixed feelings. "On one hand, we can recommend 25 percent of sunscreens on the market," she said. "On the other hand, we can recommend... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for ful ...

Quick Hits

The neoliberal wetdream coming to fruition. From Fast Company: Districts all over are experimenting with teacher-less computer labs and green-lighting entire classrooms of adult-supervised children exploring the Internet--an Android powered tablet designed specifically for students. Teachers' u ...

MANILA/MILAN (Reuters) - World food prices hit a record in January and recent catastrophic weather around the globe could put yet more pressure on the cost of food, an issue that has already helped spark protests across the Middle East. Up for the seventh month in a row, the closely watched Food ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/busi... The Guardian in Britain says calmly:Shell stoked up the heated debate about the high cost of fuel on the forecourt today after reporting it made profits of nearly £1.6m an hour over the last three months.A leading member of the road lobby said moto ...

Wellbeing in Egypt and Tunisia decreased significantly over the past few years, even as GDP increased. In Egypt, where demonstrations have prompted President Hosni Mubarak to give up power after elections this fall, the percentage of people "thriving" fell by 18 percentage points since 2005. In ...

Views & News from Norway

June is always a busy month in Norway, with a rash of meetings before the summer holidays begin and high season for visitors. It’s no different for Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, who was hosting no less than six of his foreign counterparts this week alone. British Prime Minister David Ca ...

The Oslo City Council agreed on Wednesday to fund efforts to apply for another Winter Olympics in the Norwegian capital. The application process alone is now expected to cost taxpayers around NOK 130 million, and work actually began months ago. The media hype, not least in major Norwegian newspa ...

UPDATED: One of the biggest and lengthiest strikes to hit Norway in nearly 30 years ended during the night, after three labour organizations representing thousands of municipal workers accepted a new offer from their township employers. A settlement was also reached in Oslo, but strikes continue ...

Last Friday, while Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg was welcoming the US Secretary of State to Norway, police were mobilizing to arrest a man for threatening to kill both Stoltenberg and another top Labour Party politician, who also is the man’s stepfather. Newspaper Dagbladet reported Wedn ...

One of the biggest and lengthiest strikes to hit Norway in nearly 30 years ended late Tuesday night, when three labour organizations representing thousands of municipal workers accepted a new offer from their township employers. Strikes continued, however, in Oslo, among some state workers and a ...

Permaculture Research Institute - Australia

Rhubarb Currently, approximately 80% of the food crops grown in the world are annual plants, and it’s been this way for quite some time. Perennial plant food crops are pretty much in the minority in terms of how the human race derives its nutrition. Permaculture strongly emphasises the i ...

Maya Mountain Research Farm (MMRF) is a small NGO and working farm located in southern Belize. The farm has about 20 acres of managed land, with the remaining 50 acres managed for limited extraction of timber, fuel wood and medicinals and as a wildlife corridor between the Columbia River Forest ...

An update on the FRESH project — the world’s wildest supermarket — underway here in Denmark. Urban farmers take over the world plot by plot. Wow! Going money-free is the best decision ever. Everything is really free and laws of attraction really exist — how cool is that! ...

Rural policy is once again the preserve of the elite, and wildlife and people suffer as a result. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and political activist, United Kingdom. I might have solved a minor mystery. Last week, after a public outcry(1,2), the government d ...

Editor’s Note: To follow, I think, is a very important look at Ted Trainer’s work — one that broaches an oft-avoided but critically essential conversation. I must confess to only having read a single article from Ted Trainer previously, which I posted here, but from that articl ...

Pointman's

I caught the tail end of a news item last week about a space rocket launch, I think taking supplies to the International Space Station. It only got a mention, because it also was carrying up the ashes of the actor James Doohan. The name might mean nothing to you but if I said he … Rea ...

I want to tell you the story of a couple of things that happened in the not too distant past, because they obviously need to be told again, if only to serve as a warning from history. They’re forgotten stories nowadays, possibly because they’re not very pleasant ones, but they did ha ...

Well, there you go. WordPress informs me that 100,000 pages of this blog have been read, or at least clicked on, by people around the world. How so many people googling “meerkat” or “MaxGentleman” could end up here, I’ll never understand. It is of course, a feel goo ...

I’d like to introduce you to one of the great discoveries of my life, the Prat Principle. Before doing so, I’ll have to ensure we have a common understanding of what exactly a prat is, prior to sharing it with you, together with some related tricks and tips. Prat is one of the great ...

This is not going to be a popular article with some people on the skeptical side of the global warming divide but you’re going to get it anyway, because a few things that have needed to be said for some time, now require to be said more urgently, especially in the light of recent events.&# ...

Journalists' Toolkit

This is a Tumblr blog that I started in early April 2012: Baby Steps in Data Journalism Its purpose is to collect links and other useful information related to learning about data journalism. To go directly to something you might be searching for, try these links: How I installed Python (April 2 ...

How do you choose the best settings for exporting your video, after you have edited it? I remember how confusing this was for me when I started working with Web video several years ago. With the slower computers we had back then, I would wait for what seemed like forever while exporting a small ...

The new Video Resources page has been added to this site. This is a carefully curated page with links to good tutorials for video editing software, video shooting tips, and the like. It’s intended for beginners, particularly journalism students and journalism educators who are teaching vid ...

I have been hard at work updating the Flash Journalism website. New tutorials for ActionScript 3.0 and for working on the Timeline in CS4 and CS5 have been added. The old pages from the original site (created to support the book I wrote about Flash journalism in 2004) are still online, and all t ...

As an aid to a journalism training session I agreed to give, I created a short PowerPoint that is aimed at journalism students. Windows Live Movie Maker Tutorial Windows Live Movie Maker is quite different from its predecessor — Windows Movie Maker (not “live”). It is less vers ...

Justice Roars - Louisiana

On Tuesday, I returned home after ten days travel. I use my time away from the office and New Orleans to recharge, re-energize and refocus on my life and my work. I called Cynthia Wiggins, CEO of Guste Homes Wednesday morning to confirm our first Friday of the month Mobile Market and learn ...

From our friends at the New Orleans Workers Center for Racial Justice: “The main reason people don’t stand up for themselves and defend their own rights,” says Josue Diaz, “is because they’re afraid of being deported.” Josue should know. He was arrested and put in deportation proceedings – ...

My friends Richard and Hilda McCline needed a couple of guys to help them move boxes from the American Can to storage. So on Thursday, Jacob picked-up Donald (his friend) and they worked from a little after 11am until 2pm. On the way home, they stopped at the light at Carrollton and Tulan ...

Beasts of the Southern Wild, the remarkable film by a collective of New Orleans filmmakers calling themselves Court 13, won the Caméra d’Or today at the Cannes Film Festival. The award, which recognizes the best film by a first-time filmmaker, is one of the most prestigious honors in the world o ...

This letter and video is reposted from the website of Women With A Vision. You can donate on their site: http://wwav-no.org. Dear friends, colleagues and family, Today we reach out to express our gratitude for your support and to let you know that everyone in the Women With A Vision family is ...

Information Underground

Italy, Netherlands pay solemn visit to Auschwitz http://washingtonexaminer.com/sports/20 ... itz/697256 OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — The Italy and Netherlands teams took breaks from their European Championship preparations Wednesday to make solemn and emotional visits to the former Auschwitz-Birke ...

Christopher Marlowe wrote: TIUers sound like a pretty fit lot. We should organize some kind of "olympics" when we get thrown into the FEMA camps. Statistics: Posted by Wimpy — Wed Jun 06, 2012 10:01 am

I heard this morning on the radio that the Dutch soccer team have also been to Auschwitz and what a moving experience it was blah blah blah. I can see we are going to be fed a lot of Auschwitz sentimental crap for the duration of the tournament. Just like 2 years ago at the World Cup in South Af ...

Interesting. Didn't know that Finkelstein had a new book out. Though I'm a bit disappointed w/his stance on the whole BDS movement, it's good to see him speaking about how American jews are not as supportive of the zio state. In addition to not supporting it, they really have to take an active s ...

Yeah, I totally agree w/Iran on this. I read/skimmed a couple of books that added some additional info on possible reasons why they would want to get rid of Nixon. I think it was in Dope, Inc. that I read about how Nixon was apparently wanting to do something about the whole "drug probl ...

environment 360

Even small doses of a flame retardant commonly used in furniture and baby products has been linked to harmful health effects, including obesity and developmental and reproductive problems, according to a new study. Speaking at a conference in Canada, Duke University chemist Heather Stapleton sai ...

Cities worldwide are increasingly aware of the need to prepare for the effects of climate change — including increased variability in temperatures and extreme ICLEI weather events — but are often hampered by limited financial resources and political commitment, according to a new survey by t ...

A new report finds that an unexpectedly large number of UK farmers have installed renewable energy systems such as solar panels and wind turbines on their properties, a trend that could increase the profitability Shutterstock of the agricultural sector and help the UK achieve its green energy ...

Rising water temperatures and a reduction in river flows have caused declining production at some thermoelectric power plants in the U.S. and Europe, a trend that will likely continue for decades as the planet warms, according to a new study. Writing in em>Nature Climate Change, researchers esti ...

Across a large area of western Siberia, shrubs are rapidly growing into trees more than six feet tall, a process that is expected to further increase temperatures in this rapidly warming part of the Arctic, according to a new study. Relying on satellite images and fieldwork, scientists from Oxfo ...

backofthebook

A BoB short: Police in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario have apologized to a man they believed to be dangerous after his daughter drew a picture of him shooting a gun at bad guys. In February, Jessie Sansone, 26, was arrested at his four-year-old daughter Nevaeh’s school for possession of a firearm. ...

By Zoe Grams When NBC’s dreadful soap-musical “Smash” is the only representation of theatre artists in mainstream culture, you know there’s a problem (for theatre artists, at any rate). So it’s no wonder there has been an online flutter over the potential relaunch of the ...

By Mark Evans It must have been quite the party last week at the Canadian Venture Capital Association’s annual meeting in Montreal. In stark contrast to previous years, it seems attendees were downright giddy about the venture capital landscape and where it’s heading. It may be that after severa ...

By Nathaniel Moher Listen, I know a lot of things about a lot of things (the moon, living on the moon, the total weight of all moon rocks on Earth down to the last kilogram), and one of those things I know a lot of things about is revolution (as outlined in my many articles [...]

By Montreal Simon Oh no. Somebody please stop him. It looks as if Jean Charest has finally, as we say in Québec, perdu ses pédales, or lost his pedals. He’s so eager to discredit the students, so he can run against them in a snap election, he’s accusing them of plotting to sabotage t ...

The Givat Ulpana neighborhood of Beit El is going to be evacuated. The Regulation Bill, which would legalize settlements in the West Bank challenged by Palestinians private property claims, did not pass. And that's good, but it doesn’t make everything all better.

Japan Times

Overseas nationals taking the national caregivers' licensing examination will be allowed more time than Japanese applicants, the welfare ministry said. The decision applies to those covered by a bilateral economic partnership agreement, including Filipinos and Indonesians, the Health, Labor an ...

Japan suffered its first loss under Eddie Jones as the Brave Blossoms went down 25-19 at the hands of Fiji in their Pacific Nations Cup opener on Tuesday. Ayumu Goromaru scored 14 of Japan's points. The hosts were awarded a penalty try midway through the second half.

The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency plans to conclude that the Mihama nuclear power plant's No. 2 reactor in Fukui Prefecture is safe enough to operate beyond 40 years, the period of operation that requires safety assessments, sources said Wednesday. It would be the first time since the F ...

Pierre-Joseph Redoute (1759-1840) was a botanist and an official court artist to Queen Marie Antoinette of France. He worked through both the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror and, despite the political turmoil of the era, he was successful enough to become one of the most famous botanic ...

Karim Benzema scored twice and brilliantly set up Franck Ribery for his third goal in three games as France beat Estonia 4-0 Tuesday to boost confidence ahead of next week's European Championship match against England. France has won its three Euro 2012 warmup matches, and is undefeated in 21 ...

Making It Count - CCPA

Québec is in the midst of a social crisis of rare intensity, both in terms of the duration of the confrontation between the student movement and the Québec government and the extent to which citizens have rallied behind students in the last weeks. After more than four months, a total of 161 stud ...

Trish Hennessy is Director of Strategic Issues with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Several polls released this spring reveal the extent of concern among Canadians about worsening income inequality. Most Canadians say that deep income inequality undermines Canadian values. The major ...

Following are the notes on which I based presentations to the Senate National Finance Committee on June 6 and the House of Commons Finance Committee on May 29. They summarize key CLC concerns with the Budget Implementation Bill. Lack of Consultation The significant changes to the Employment Ins ...

Why is it still, for some, a newsflash that reality for today’s youth is a solar system away from the world of just 25 or 30 years ago? The thumbnail sketch is bleak: since 1987, incomes have stagnated for most Canadian homes—with two exceptions. The lowest income earners have actually lost grou ...

Canada’s economy grew by half a percent in the first quarter of 2012, staying on pace for unimpressive annual growth of two percent. The good news is that business investment was strong, at least on a seasonally-adjusted basis. (As usually happens in the first quarter, the actual dollar value of ...

ReDress

Stuart Littlewood looks at the heroic efforts of students in the besieged Gaza Strip to compete in an international event despite the sadistic obstructions of the Israeli regime, international cowardice and sheer bad luck.

Alan Hart views the Zionist-manufactured myth that the 1967 war was a defensive war - rather than a war of aggression - launched by Israel because it faced a threat of extermination by its Arab neighbours, and laments the lazy - or Zionist-motivated - journalism which continues to perpetuate thi ...

Jamal Kanj argues that, in dealing with the issue of Iran's nuclear programme, the five-plus-one countries - the five permanent UN Security Council members plus Germany - "should be guided by reason, not by Israel's irrational paranoia that foresees other nations' 'potential' development and kno ...

Gilad Atzmon looks at how Britain's Israel lobby, led by arch-Zionist Education Secretary Michael Gove, has mobilized in condemnation of the country’s largest school examinations body for setting a question that asked students to explain "why some people are prejudiced against Jews".

Physics Today

BBC: Until now, liquids have been difficult to view at the same resolution as solids using transmission electron microscopes (TEMs), which require liquids to be placed in some sort of container. Silicon nitride or silicon oxide capsules are traditionally used, but they don't provide a clear view ...

Science: In 2011, Brian Schmidt, Adam Riess, and Saul Perlmutter were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae". The Nobel may not be shared among more than three people, and the three men wante ...

Talking Points Memo: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is back online after a four-month long maintenance period. On Thursday, CERN announced that it had achieved the highest-energy level for proton collisions yet recorded in history: 8 trillion electron volts (TeV).

Earth Policy Institute: Renewable energy makes up only a small section of the energy market but since 2007 hydropower grew by 7 percent and wind power grew by 36 percent while coal declined slightly says a new report from the Earth Policy Institute. In fact in five US states more than 10 percent ...

Nature: In the wake of the null results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, some physicists are turning from larger, more powerful particle accelerators to smaller, less expensive ones. At the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Virginia, a continuous dense beam of electr ...

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Peakwater

“Shell, the biggest operator, says 150,000 barrels per day is stolen from Africa’s top oil producer. Nigeria’s Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said that as much as one-fifth of government revenue is lost to oil theft. The small amount that is refined locally finds a ready ...

“The Riverdale Mobile Home Park in Jersey Shore, PA is under major threat of eviction due to plans to build a 3 million gallon PER DAY water withdrawal site at the property to service natural gas drilling. Beginning June 1st, Aqua America, a company partnered with Penn Virginia Resources ...

“The SWCC is responsible for desalinating seawater to supply potable water to coastal and inland cities throughout the country. It owns and operates 30 desalination plants nationwide, and is also the second-largest electrical power producer in Saudi Arabia. It produces 3.5 million cubic me ...

“The hydraulic fracturing chemical disclosure law passed by Texas in 2011 served as a trailblazer for other states, said David Blackmon, director of government affairs at El Paso Corporation at the Seventh Annual Mayer Brown Global Energy Conference in Houston on Wednesday. Fifteen U.S. st ...

“It may surprise many Iranians living in the country’s dense and sprawling desert capital to know that millions of cubic liters of water are wasted every day. But where? Underground mostly, although occasionally modern construction projects smack up against an ancient irrigation system cal ...

D. Kucinich

Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today called for a legal framework to define elements of modern warfare in order to protect Congress’s authority under Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution to declare war. Kucinich also notes that such a framework is necessary in order to protect ...

Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today took to the House Floor to join in the celebration of the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth the Second. See video here. “This year marks the Diamond Jubilee - the 60th year - of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign as Monarch of the United Kingdom. As our close ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 31, 2012) -- Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is today circulating a Dear Colleague in support of a letter to President Obama demanding the legal justification for drone attacks on suspected militants. Kucinich took to the House Floor in support of the letter. See video ...

Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) has opposed the use of combat drones against suspected terrorists abroad since the first known attack in 2004. In February 2006, he asked the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency to suspend the use of Predator drones citing the “high toll in innocen ...

Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), author of House Joint Resolution 100, a constitutional amendment to get private money out of federal elections, today released the following video after Politico reported that super PACS and outside groups plan to spend one billion dollars to influence Novembe ...

Authentically Wired

www.authenticallywired.com … in the end it’s all about disclosure & transparency … (do not automatically accept or reject what I write … do your own research … by the same token do not automatically accept or reject what any “official” says either) … contemplate then draw your own conclusion ...

www.authenticallywired.com … in the end it’s all about disclosure & transparency … (do not automatically accept or reject what I write … do your own research … by the same token do not automatically accept or reject what any “official” says either) … contemplate then draw your own conclusion ...

…Mainstream media did not mi$$ anything, they were ju$t paid not to inform you & me … Mainstream Media Misses the Boat, Again, on the Medical Utility of Marijuana Paul Armentano, Truthout: "Clinical data published last week in the Canadian Medical Association Journal once a ...

…For America’s corporate owned government they are expendable … Got it … Soldiers Are Coming Home Injured and Addicted — Will We Pay Our Debt to Our Vets? Soldiers come home from the two wars with a staggering rate of brain injuries and the addictions paired with them, but to ...

…Exactly what do you call Wall Street … it’s a game of chance only you don’t have a chance… Casinos Are Not the Future: Rebuilding Atlantic City Will Take More Than Gambling Another flashy resort? Atlantic City should mimic other revitalized Jersey shore towns and just be it ...

Popular Technology

"I was never a skeptic" - Richard Muller, 2011 Richard Muller has never been a skeptic, at best he had a moment of intellectual honesty towards skeptics when he acknowledged Steve McIntyre's debunking of Mann's Hockey Stick, only to later dismiss this as irrelevant to the global warming debate ...

Judith Curry is not a skeptic but a hurricane alarmist who had an alleged epiphany after Climategate and now seeks to be some sort of arbiter of scientific integrity. Her history of trust building includes accusing world leading hurricane expert, Dr. William Gray of "brain fossilization" and t ...

Skeptical Science is a climate alarmist website founded and run by a self-employed cartoonist, John Cook. It is moderated by zealots who ruthlessly censor any and all form of dissent from their alarmist position. This way they can pretend to win arguments, when in reality they have all been refu ...

As a veteran online searcher, data miner, researcher, and computer scientist, I have in the past shied away from using in-browser search bars... instead preferring to use the search tools available on individual sites. This is for practical and functional purposes, as: [1] in-site searches t ...

SourceWatch is a propaganda site funded by an extreme left-wing, anti-capitalist and anti-corporate organization, the Center for Media and Democracy. Just like the untrustworthy Wikipedia the content can be written and edited by ordinary web users. Users who all conveniently share an extreme lef ...

Monga Bay ( Articles )

Indonesia is making 'encouraging' progress on its push to reduce deforestation by improving governance over its forests and peatlands, but still needs to do more to enforce environmental laws, said the head of the country's Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) task force ...

Last year researchers took the first ever publicly-released video of an African golden cat (Profelis aurata) in a Gabon rainforest. This beautiful, but elusive, feline was filmed sitting docilely for the camera and chasing a bat. The least-known of Africa's wild cat species, the African golden c ...

The use of remote camera traps, which photograph animals as they pass, has revolutionized research on endangered and cryptic species. The tool has even allowed scientists to document animals new to science or feared extinct. But as important as camera traps have become, they are still prohibitiv ...

Few people have ever heard of the Socotra Archipelago even though, biologically-speaking, it is among the world's most wondrous set of islands. Over one third of Socotra's plants are found no-where else on Earth, i.e. endemic, while 90 percent of its reptiles are also endemic. Adding to its list ...

Some New Zealanders were lucky enough to catch a once in a lifetime glimpse of Venus passing over the sun today but cloud over much of the country prevented many others from spotting the Transit of Venus.The weather stayed clear...

Deterioration of Maori taonga held at Te Papa will be a thing of the past with the development of a process to stabilise acids that eat away at the fibres of korowai, or cloaks.Textile conservator Rangi Te Kanawa, who comes from...

The Bovine

From the Barre Monpelier Times Argus.com “On a sunny May Saturday — one which promised to be a good day at the market — I found myself instead walking down a forested path in Shrewsbury. I wanted to take a … Continue reading →

Today Sustain Ontario hosted a debate, which was more like a conversation about raw milk, and the political climate surrounding in it. The debate over raw milk has been going on for over 20 years in Canada. We tend to … Continue reading →

From Farmer Michael Schmidt: Debating until the cows are gone It appears that people think we have a raw milk movement and the big question seems to be who is allowed to be a leader or not. In case somebody … Continue reading →

From David E. Gumpert on the Complete Patient blog: “I was at a food safety conference a few years back that focused on raw milk, and one state public health official concluded his remarks by saying, to effect, “I personally … Continue reading →

Mish's Global Economic Trends

Congratulations to Wisconsin governor Scott Walker who became the first governor in US history to win a recall vote. The New York Times reports Walker Survives Wisconsin Recall Vote Gov. Scott Walker, whose decision to cut collective bargaining rights for most public workers set off a f ...

The Markit PMI data from Europe shows still more deterioration led by France, Italy, and Spain. Let's take a look at a few countries. France: Business Activity Continues Contraction at Marked Pace Key points: Final Markit France Services Activity Index at 45.1 (45.2 in April), 7- ...

A key question on trader's minds is who will win the June 17th Greece election and whether it results in a Greek exit of the eurozone. Deutsche Bank gives it assessment in a report called Probability weighting EUR views on Greece Under a variety of assumptions, the market pricing look ...

Inquiring minds are watching an interview by Max Keiser with Hugo Salinas Price on a plan to back Greek currency with silver. In the first half of the video below, Max discusses unelected bureaucrats "running a gulag casino state" for their own benefit, financial terrorism against Ireland, ...

Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs

A few notes on the decision to bypass the “System” in order to expose the “System” Since the release of my book Classified Woman: The Sibel Edmonds Story I’ve been getting the same question in different variations: why did you decide to self-publish your book? What made you opt for self-publishi ...

BFP Nightly Quote “The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.” – Thomas Jefferson International Newsworthy Iran Queries Obama&#82 ...

Bilderberg: Talk Shop, World Government, or a Bit of Both? Commentary on the secretive Bilderberg group – whose annual meeting is fast approaching – tends to fall into one of two polarized camps: those who claim it is a mere talk shop for global ‘has-beens’ who get togeth ...

In this episode of our EyeOpener Report James Corbett presents the unprecedented lengths that the government has gone to suppress the Sibel Edmonds Story, and the publishing industry’s active collusion with the FBI, the CIA, and other government agencies to either “allow” or “d ...

bloody crossroads

The debt deal is yet another sign that hope and change has been a fiction from the start: Like many, I was extremely hopeful when Obama won in 2008. And like many I’ve become totally disillusioned with the president and … Continue reading →

Good politifact piece on how Social Security functions and its solvency How the state is revoking our civil liberties by imprisoning people, in some cases for up to 15 years, for recording police brutality with smart phones Economist Dean Baker … Continue reading →

For those who read this on Splice, be sure to re-read the unedited version… Why are we trying to prop up a broken system?: Do you realize how badly you’re being screwed by the health insurance corporations? Let me give … Continue reading →

Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →

Politifact on how entitlements have lifted millions out of poverty Must read: scientists have recently concluded that a once in a tens of millions of years mass extinction is now underway, mainly in the ocean, because of global warming and … Continue reading →

As persistent high oil prices and the burden of increased regulatory compliance have rendered energy management strategy development crucial for fleet owners worldwide, the shipping industry is on the verge [...]

KUALA LUMPUR–Malaysia’s state oil and gas company Petroliam Nasional Bhd., also known as Petronas, said Tuesday that it has awarded an engineering and construction contract (EPCIC) for a floating liquefied [...]

While many of the unemployed, disadvantaged and poor Britons lack enough to pay for basic necessities, including food, energy and water, the queen’s diamond jubilee has cost the UK and its taxpayers an estimated £3 billion.

Congressional Budget Office Director's Blog

The rate of unemployment in the United States has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, making the past three years the longest stretch of high unemployment in this country since the Great Depression. CBO projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 8 percent until 2014. The share of ...

The military services—the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps—use modeling techniques to inform parts of their annual budget requests. As directed by the Congress in the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act, today’s CBO study provides information on the models used ...

More than 2 million service members have deployed in support of overseas contingency operations (OCO) in Iraq and Afghanistan since October 2001. Two combat-related conditions that affect some OCO veterans and that have generated widespread concern among policymakers are post-traumatic stress di ...

Yesterday I spoke to the National Economists Club on our recently released Budget and Economic Outlook. My remarks reiterated much of what I said in several of last week’s blog posts: CBO Releases the Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022 Fundamental Fiscal Challenge How ...

The federal government accumulated a budget deficit of $349 billion for the first four months of fiscal year 2012, CBO estimates in its latest Monthly Budget Review, $70 billion less than the shortfall recorded for the same period last year. Without shifts in the timing of certain payments, howe ...

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Complex carbon-based molecules, including many that are important for life on Earth, could have formed in the early solar system. That's according to a paper by Fred Ciesla and Scott Sandford in this ...

Head scans of astronauts have shown signs of raised intracranial pressure affecting their eyes and pituitary glands, new research has revealed. Writing in the journal Radiology, University of Texas ...

Nick Turse

pri-arts: Author Ray Bradbury has died at the age of 91. (Photo: Ray Bradbury in 1975. Alan Light/Wikipedia) In this archival interview from Studio 360, Bradbury describes how, as a young writer in the early 1950s, he was tapped by John Huston to write the screenplay for “Moby Dick” (at 36:5 ...

Just released —the latest Tactical Briefing (#34) from Adbusters Flash Encampments: Occupy morphs into a new model! Hey all you wild cats, do-gooders and steadfast rebels out there, Our movement is living through a painful rebirth… “There has been a unfortunate consolidation of power in #OWS,” ...

In this Nov. 27, 1965 photo, a Vietnamese litter bearer wears a face mask to keep out the smell as he passes the bodies of U.S. and Vietnamese soldiers killed in fighting against the Viet Cong at the Michelin rubber plantation, about 45 miles northeast of Saigon. (AP Photo/Horst Faas, File) #

todayinlaborhistory: Today in labor history, June 6, 1937: A general strike by some 12,000 auto workers and others in Lansing, MI, shuts down the city for a month in what would become known as the city’s “Labor Holiday.” The strike was precipitated by the arrest of nine workers, including th ...

Just released —the latest Tactical Briefing (#34) from Adbusters Flash Encampments: Occupy morphs into a new model! Hey all you wild cats, do-gooders and steadfast rebels out there, Our movement is living through a painful rebirth… “There has been a unfortunate consolidation of power in #OWS, ...

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